= Mechanize CHANGELOG
=== 2.1 / 2011-12-20
* Deprecations
* Mechanize#get no longer accepts an options hash.
* Mechanize::Util::to_native_charset has been removed.
* Minor enhancements
* Mechanize now depends on net-http-persistent 2.3+. This new version
brings idle timeouts to help with the dreaded "too many connection resets"
issue when POSTing to a closed connection. Issue #123
* SSL connections will be verified against the system certificate store by
default.
* Added Mechanize#retry_change_requests to allow mechanize to retry POST and
other non-idempotent requests when you know it is safe to do so. Issue
#123
* Mechanize can now stream files directly to disk without loading them into
memory first through Mechanize::Download, a pluggable parser for
downloading files.
All responses larger than Mechanize#max_file_buffer are downloaded to a
Tempfile. For backwards compatibility Mechanize::File subclasses still
load the response body into memory.
To force all unknown content types to download to disk instead of memory
set:
agent.pluggable_parser.default = Mechanize::Download
* Added Mechanize#content_encoding_hooks which allow handling of
non-standard content encodings like "agzip". Patch #125 by kitamomonga
* Added dom_class to elements and the element matcher like dom_id. Patch
#156 by Dan Hansen.
* Added support for the HTML5 keygen form element. See
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-keygen-element Patch #157
by Victor Costan.
* Mechanize no longer follows meta refreshes that have no "url=" in the
content attribute to avoid infinite loops. To follow a meta refresh to
the same page set Mechanize#follow_meta_refresh_self to true. Issue #134
by Jo Hund.
* Updated 'Mac Safari' User-Agent alias to Safari 5.1.1. 'Mac Safari 4' can
be used for the old 'Mac Safari' alias.
* When given multiple HTTP authentication options mechanize now picks the
strongest method.
* Improvements to HTTP authorization:
* mechanize raises Mechanize::UnathorizedError for 401 responses which is
a sublcass of Mechanize::ResponseCodeError.
* Added support for NTLM authentication, but this has not been tested.
* Mechanize::Cookie.new accepts attributes in a hash.
* Mechanize::CookieJar#<<(cookie) (alias: add!) is added. Issue #139
* Different mechanize instances may now have different loggers. Issue #122
* Mechanize now accepts a proxy port as a service name or number string.
Issue #167
* Bug fixes
* Mechanize now handles cookies just as most modern browsers do,
roughly based on RFC 6265.
* domain=.example.com (which is invalid) is considered identical to
domain=example.com.
* A cookie with domain=example.com is sent to host.sub.example.com
as well as host.example.com and example.com.
* A cookie with domain=TLD (no dots) is accepted and sent if the
host name is TLD, and rejected otherwise. To retain compatibility
and convention, host/domain names starting with "local" are exempt
from this rule.
* A cookie with no domain attribute is only sent to the original
host.
* A cookie with an Effective TLD is rejected based on the public
suffix list. (cf. http://publicsuffix.org/)
* "Secure" cookies are not sent via non-https connection.
* Subdomain match is not performed against an IP address.
* It is recommended that you clear out existing cookie jars for
regeneration because previously saved cookies may not have been
parsed correctly.
* Mechanize takes more care to avoid saving files with certain unsafe names.
You should still take care not to use mechanize to save files directly
into your home directory ($HOME). Issue #163.
* Mechanize#cookie_jar= works again. Issue #126
* The original Referer value persists on redirection. Issue #150
* Do not send a referer on a Refresh header based redirection.
* Fixed encoding error in tests when LANG=C. Patch #142 by jinschoi.
* The order of items in a form submission now match the DOM order. Patch
#129 by kitamomonga
* Fixed proxy example in EXAMPLE. Issue #146 by NielsKSchjoedt
=== 2.0.1 / 2011-06-28
Mechanize now uses minitest to avoid 1.9 vs 1.8 assertion availability in
test/unit
* Bug Fixes
* Restored Mechanize#set_proxy. Issue #117, #118, #119
* Mechanize::CookieJar#load now lazy-loads YAML. Issue #118
* Mechanize#keep_alive_time no longer crashes but does nothing as
net-http-persistent does not support HTTP/1.0 keep-alive extensions.
=== 2.0 / 2011-06-27
Mechanize is now under the MIT license
* API changes
* WWW::Mechanize has been removed. Use Mechanize.
* Pre connect hooks are now called with the agent and the request. See
Mechanize#pre_connect_hooks.
* Post connect hooks are now called with the agent and the response. See
Mechanize#post_connect_hooks.
* Mechanize::Chain is gone, as an internal API this should cause no problems.
* Mechanize#fetch_page no longer accepts an options Hash.
* Mechanize#put now accepts headers instead of an options Hash as the last
argument
* Mechanize#delete now accepts headers instead of an options Hash as the
last argument
* Mechanize#request_with_entity now accepts headers instead of an options
Hash as the last argument
* Mechanize no longer raises RuntimeError directly, Mechanize::Error or
ArgumentError are raised instead.
* The User-Agent header has changed. It no longer includes the WWW- prefix
and now includes the ruby version. The URL has been updated as well.
* Mechanize now requires ruby 1.8.7 or newer.
* Hpricot support has been removed as webrobots requires nokogiri.
* Mechanize#get no longer accepts the referer as the second argument.
* Mechanize#get no longer allows the HTTP method to be changed (:verb
option).
* Mechanize::Page::Meta is now Mechanize::Page::MetaRefresh to accurately
depict its responsibilities.
* Mechanize::Page#meta is now Mechanize::Page#meta_refresh as it only
contains meta elements with http-equiv of "refresh"
* Mechanize::Page#charset is now Mechanize::Page::charset. GH #112, patch
by Godfrey Chan.
* Deprecations
* Mechanize#get with an options hash is deprecated and will be removed after
October, 2011.
* Mechanize::Util::to_native_charset is deprecated as it is no longer used
by Mechanize.
* New Features
* Add header reference methods to Mechanize::File so that a reponse
object gets compatible with Net::HTTPResponse.
* Mechanize#click accepts a regexp or string to click a button/link in the
current page. It works as expected when not passed a string or regexp.
* Provide a way to only follow permanent redirects (301)
automatically: agent.redirect_ok = :permanent GH #73
* Mechanize now supports HTML5 meta charset. GH #113
* Documented various Mechanize accessors. GH #66
* Mechanize now uses net-http-digest_auth. GH #31
* Mechanize now implements session cookies. GH #78
* Mechanize now implements deflate decoding. GH #40
* Mechanize now allows a certificate and key to be passed directly. GH #71
* Mechanize::Form::MultiSelectList now implements #option_with and
#options_with. GH #42
* Add Mechanize::Page::Link#rel and #rel?(kind) to read and test the rel
attribute.
* Add Mechanize::Page#canonical_uri to read a tag.
* Add support for Robots Exclusion Protocol (i.e. robots.txt) and
nofollow/noindex in meta tags and the rel attribute. Automatic
exclusion can be turned on by setting:
agent.robots = true
* Manual robots.txt test can be performed with
Mechanize#robots_allowed? and #robots_disallowed?.
* Mechanize::Form now supports the accept-charset attribute. GH #96
* Mechanize::ResponseReadError is raised if there is an exception while
reading the response body. This allows recovery from broken HTTP servers
(or connections). GH #90
* Mechanize#follow_meta_refresh set to :anywhere will follow meta refresh
found outside of a document's head. GH #99
* Add support for HTML5's rel="noreferrer" attribute which indicates
no "Referer" information should be sent when following the link.
* A frame will now load its content when #content is called. GH #111
* Added Mechanize#default_encoding to provide a default for pages with no
encoding specified. GH #104
* Added Mechanize#force_default_encoding which only uses
Mechanize#default_encoding for parsing HTML. GH #104
* Bug Fixes:
* Fixed a bug where Referer is not sent when accessing a relative
URI starting with "http".
* Fix handling of Meta Refresh with relative paths. GH #39
* Mechanize::CookieJar now supports RFC 2109 correctly. GH #85
* Fixed typo in EXAMPLES.rdoc. GH #74
* The base element is now handled correctly for images. GH #72
* Image buttons with no name attribute are now included in the form's button
list. GH#56
* Improved handling of non ASCII-7bit compatible characters in links (only
an issue on ruby 1.8). GH #36, GH #75
* Loading cookies.txt is faster. GH #38
* Mechanize no longer sends cookies for a.b.example to axb.example. GH #41
* Mechanize no longer sends the button name as a form field for image
buttons. GH #45
* Blank cookie values are now skipped. GH #80
* Mechanize now adds a '.' to cookie domains if no '.' was sent. This is
not allowed by RFC 2109 but does appear in RFC 2965. GH #86
* file URIs are now read in binary mode. GH #83
* Content-Encoding: x-gzip is now treated like gzip per RFC 2616.
* Mechanize now unescapes URIs for meta refresh. GH #68
* Mechanize now has more robust HTML charset detection. GH #43
* Mechanize::Form::Textarea is now created from a textarea element. GH #94
* A meta content-type now overrides the HTTP content type. GH #114
* Mechanize::Page::Link#uri now handles both escaped and unescaped hrefs.
GH #107
=== 1.0.0
* New Features:
* An optional verb may be passed to Mechanize#get GH #26
* The WWW constant is deprecated. Switch to the top level constant Mechanize
* SelectList#option_with and options_with for finding options
* Bug Fixes:
* Rescue errors from bogus encodings
* 7bit content-encoding support. Thanks sporkmonger! GH #2
* Fixed a bug with iconv conversion. Thanks awesomeman! GH #9
* meta redirects outside the head are not followed. GH #13
* Form submissions work with nil page encodings. GH #25
* Fixing default values with serialized cookies. GH #3
* Checkboxes and fields are sorted by page appearance before submitting. #11
=== 0.9.3
* Bug Fixes:
* Do not apply encoding if encoding equals 'none' Thanks Akinori MUSHA!
* Fixed Page#encoding= when changing the value from or to nil. Made
it return the assigned value while at it. (Akinori MUSHA)
* Custom request headers may be supplied WWW::Mechanize#request_headers
RF #24516
* HTML Parser may be set on a per instance level WWW::Mechanize#html_parser
RF #24693
* Fixed string encoding in ruby 1.9. RF #2433
* Rescuing Zlib::DataErrors (Thanks Kelley Reynolds)
* Fixing a problem with frozen SSL objects. RF #24950
* Do not send a referer on meta refresh. RF #24945
* Fixed a bug with double semi-colons in Content-Disposition headers
* Properly handling cookies that specify a path. RF #25259
=== 0.9.2 / 2009/03/05
* New Features:
* Mechanize#submit and Form#submit take arbitrary headers(thanks penguincoder)
* Bug Fixes:
* Fixed a bug with bad cookie parsing
* Form::RadioButton#click unchecks other buttons (RF #24159)
* Fixed problems with Iconv (RF #24190, RF #24192, RF #24043)
* POST parameters should be CGI escaped
* Made Content-Type match case insensitive (Thanks Kelly Reynolds)
* Non-string form parameters work
=== 0.9.1 2009/02/23
* New Features:
* Encoding may be specified for a page: Page#encoding=
* Bug Fixes:
* m17n fixes. ありがとう konn!
* Fixed a problem with base tags. ありがとう Keisuke
* HEAD requests do not record in the history
* Default encoding to ISO-8859-1 instead of ASCII
* Requests with URI instances should not be polluted RF #23472
* Nonce count fixed for digest auth requests. Thanks Adrian Slapa!
* Fixed a referer issue with requests using a uri. RF #23472
* WAP content types will now be parsed
* Rescued poorly formatted cookies. Thanks Kelley Reynolds!
=== 0.9.0
* Deprecations
* WWW::Mechanize::List is gone!
* Mechanize uses Nokogiri as it's HTML parser but you may switch to
Hpricot by using WWW::Mechanize.html_parser = Hpricot
* Bug Fixes:
* Nil check on page when base tag is used #23021
=== 0.8.5
* Deprecations
* WWW::Mechanize::List will be deprecated in 0.9.0, and warnings have
been added to help you upgrade.
* Bug Fixes:
* Stopped raising EOF exceptions on HEAD requests. ありがとう：HIRAKU Kuroda
* Fixed exceptions when a logger is set and file:// requests are made.
* Made Mechanize 1.9 compatible
* Not setting the port in the host header for SSL sites.
* Following refresh headers. Thanks Tim Connor!
* Cookie Jar handles cookie domains containing ports, like
'mydomain.com:443' (Thanks Michal Ochman!)
* Fixing strange uri escaping problems [#22604]
* Making content-type determintation more robust. (thanks Han Holl!)
* Dealing with links that are query string only. [#22402]
* Nokogiri may be dropped in as a replacement.
WWW::Mechanize.html_parser = Nokogiri::HTML
* Making sure the correct page is added to the history on meta refresh.
[#22708]
* Mechanize#get requests no longer send a referer unless they are relative
requests.
=== 0.8.4
* Bug Fixes:
* Setting the port number on the host header.
* Fixing Authorization headers for picky servers
=== 0.8.3
* Bug Fixes:
* Making sure logger is set during SSL connections.
=== 0.8.2
* Bug Fixes:
* Doh! I was accidentally setting headers twice.
=== 0.8.1
* Bug Fixes:
* Fixed problem with nil pointer when logger is set
=== 0.8.0
* New Features:
* Lifecycle hooks. Mechanize#pre_connect_hooks, Mechanize#post_connect_hooks
* file:/// urls are now supported
* Added Mechanize::Page#link_with, frame_with for searching for links using
+criteria+.
* Implementing PUT, DELETE, and HEAD requests
* Bug Fixes:
* Fixed an infinite loop when content-length and body length don't match.
* Only setting headers once
* Adding IIS authentication support
=== 0.7.8
* Bug Fixes:
* Fixed bug when receiving a 304 response (HTTPNotModified) on a page not
cached in history.
* #21428 Default to HTML parser for 'application/xhtml+xml' content-type.
* Fixed an issue where redirects were resending posted data
=== 0.7.7
* New Features:
* Page#form_with takes a +criteria+ hash.
* Page#form is changed to Page#form_with
* Mechanize#get takes custom http headers. Thanks Mike Dalessio!
* Form#click_button submits a form defaulting to the current button.
* Form#set_fields now takes a hash. Thanks Tobi!
* Mechanize#redirection_limit= for setting the max number of redirects.
* Bug Fixes:
* Added more examples. Thanks Robert Jackson.
* #20480 Making sure the Host header is set.
* #20672 Making sure cookies with weird semicolons work.
* Fixed bug with percent signs in urls.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kitamomonga/20080410/ruby_mechanize_percent_url_bug
* #21132 Not checking for EOF errors on redirect
* Fixed a weird gzipping error.
* #21233 Smarter multipart boundry. Thanks Todd Willey!
* #20097 Supporting meta tag cookies.
=== 0.7.6
* New Features:
* Added support for reading Mozilla cookie jars. Thanks Chris Riddoch!
* Moving text, password, hidden, int to default. Thanks Tim Harper!
* Mechanize#history_added callback for page loads. Thanks Tobi Reif!
* Mechanize#scheme_handlers callbacks for handling unsupported schemes on
links.
* Bug Fixes:
* Ignoring scheme case
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470642
* Not encoding tildes in uris. Thanks Bruno. [#19380]
* Resetting request bodys when retrying form posts. Thanks Bruno. [#19379]
* Throwing away keep alive connections on EPIPE and ECONNRESET.
* Duplicating request headers when retrying a 401. Thanks Hiroshi Ichikawa.
* Simulating an EOF error when a response length is bad. Thanks Tobias Gruetzmacher.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19178&group_id=1453&atid=5711
* Defaulting option tags to the inner text.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19976&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Supporting blank strings for option values.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19975&group_id=1453&atid=5709
=== 0.7.5
* Fixed a bug when fetching files and not pages. Thanks Mat Schaffer!
=== 0.7.4
* doh!
=== 0.7.3
* Pages are now yielded to a blocks given to WWW::Mechanize#get
* WWW::Mechanize#get now takes hash arguments for uri parameters.
* WWW::Mechanize#post takes an IO object as a parameter and posts correctly.
* Fixing a strange zlib inflate problem on windows
=== 0.7.2
* Handling gzipped responses with no Content-Length header
=== 0.7.1
* Added iPhone to the user agent aliases. [#17572]
* Fixed a bug with EOF errors in net/http. [#17570]
* Handling 0 length gzipped responses. [#17471]
=== 0.7.0
* Removed Ruby 1.8.2 support
* Changed parser to lazily parse links
* Lazily parsing document
* Adding verify_callback for SSL requests. Thanks Mike Dalessio!
* Fixed a bug with Accept-Language header. Thanks Bill Siggelkow.
=== 0.6.11
* Detecting single quotes in meta redirects.
* Adding pretty inspect for ruby versions > 1.8.4 (Thanks Joel Kociolek)
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=13150&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Fixed bug with file name in multipart posts
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=15594&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Posting forms relative to the originating page. Thanks Mortee.
* Added a FAQ
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=15772&group_id=1453&atid=5709
=== 0.6.10
* Made digest authentication work with POSTs.
* Made sure page was HTML before following meta refreshes.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12260&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Made sure that URLS with a host and no path would default to '/' for history
purposes.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12368&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Avoiding memory leaks with transact. Thanks Tobias Gruetzmacher!
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12057&group_id=1453&atid=5711
* Fixing a problem with # signs in the file name. Thanks Tobias Gruetzmacher!
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12510&group_id=1453&atid=5711
* Made sure that blank form values are submitted.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12505&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Mechanize now respects the base tag. Thanks Stephan Dale.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12468&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Aliasing inspect to pretty_inspect. Thanks Eric Promislow.
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2007-July/000157.html
=== 0.6.9
* Updating UTF-8 support for urls
* Adding AREA tags to the links list.
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2007-May/000140.html
* WWW::Mechanize#follow_meta_refresh will allow you to automatically follow
meta refresh tags. [#10032]
* Adding x-gzip to accepted content-encoding. Thanks Simon Strandgaard
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=11167&group_id=1453&atid=5711
* Added Digest Authentication support. Thanks to Ryan Davis and Eric Hodel,
you get a gold star!
=== 0.6.8
* Keep alive can be shut off now with WWW::Mechanize#keep_alive
* Conditional requests can be shut off with WWW::Mechanize#conditional_requests
* Monkey patched Net::HTTP#keep_alive?
* [#9877] Moved last request time. Thanks Max Stepanov
* Added WWW::Mechanize::File#save
* Defaulting file name to URI or Content-Disposition
* Updating compatability with hpricot
* Added more unit tests
=== 0.6.7
* Fixed a bug with keep-alive requests
* [#9549] fixed problem with cookie paths
=== 0.6.6
* Removing hpricot overrides
* Fixed a bug where alt text can be nil. Thanks Yannick!
* Unparseable expiration dates in cookies are now treated as session cookies
* Caching connections
* Requests now default to keep alive
* [#9434] Fixed bug where html entities weren't decoded
* [#9150] Updated mechanize history to deal with redirects
=== 0.6.5
* Copying headers to a hash to prevent memory leaks
* Speeding up page parsing
* Aliased fields to elements
* Adding If-Modified-Since header
* Added delete_field! to form. Thanks to Sava Chankov
* Updated uri escaping to support high order characters. Thanks to Henrik Nyh.
* Better handling relative URIs. Thanks to Henrik Nyh
* Now handles pipes in URLs
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7140&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Now escaping html entities in form fields.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7563&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Added MSIE 7.0 user agent string
=== 0.6.4
* Adding the "redirect_ok" method to Mechanize to stop mechanize from
following redirects.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=6571&group_id=1453&atid=5712
* Added protected method Mechanize#set_headers so that subclasses can set
custom headers.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7208&group_id=1453&atid=5712
* Aliased Page#referer to Page#page
* Fixed a bug when clicking relative urls
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-November/000035.html
* Fixing a bug when bad version or max age is passed to Cookie::parse
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-November/000033.html
* Fixing a bug with response codes. [#6526]
* Fixed bug [#6548]. Input type of 'button' was not being added as a button.
* Fixed bug [#7139]. REXML parser calls hpricot parser by accident
=== 0.6.3
* Added keys and values methods to Form
* Added has_value? to Form
* Added a has_field? method to Form
* The add_field! method on Form now creates a field for you on the form.
Thanks to Mat Schaffer for the patch.
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-November/000025.html
* Fixed a bug when form actions have html ecoded entities in them.
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-October/000019.html
* Fixed a bug when links or frame sources have html encoded entities in the
href or src.
* Fixed a bug where '#' symbols are encoded
http://rubyforge.org/forum/message.php?msg_id=14747
=== 0.6.2
* Added a yield to Page#form so that dealing with forms can be more DSL like.
* Added the parsed page to the ResponseCodeError so that the parsed results
can be accessed even in the event of an error.
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-September/000007.html
* Updated documentation (Thanks to Paul Smith)
=== 0.6.1
* Added a method to Form called "submit". Now forms can be submitted by
calling a method on the form.
* Added a click method to links
* Added an REXML pluggable parser for backwards compatability. To use it,
just do this:
agent.pluggable_parser.html = WWW::Mechanize::REXMLPage
* Fixed a bug with referrers by adding a page attribute to forms and links.
* Fixed a bug where domain names were case sensitive.
http://tenderlovemaking.com/2006/09/04/road-to-ruby-mechanize-060/#comment-53
* Fixed a bug with URI escaped links.
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-September/000002.html
* Fixed a bug when options in select lists don't have a value. Thanks Dan Higham
[#5837] Code in lib/mechanize/form_elements.rb is incorrect.
* Fixed a bug with loading text in to links.
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-September/000000.html
=== 0.6.0
* Changed main parser to use hpricot
* Made WWW::Mechanize::Page class searchable like hpricot
* Updated WWW::Mechanize#click to support hpricot links like this:
@agent.click (page/"a").first
* Clicking a Frame is now possible:
@agent.click (page/"frame").first
* Removed deprecated attr_finder
* Removed REXML helper methods since the main parser is now hpricot
* Overhauled cookie parser to use WEBrick::Cookie
=== 0.5.4
* Added WWW::Mechanize#trasact for saving history state between in a
transaction. See the EXAMPLES file. Thanks Johan Kiviniemi.
* Added support for gzip compressed pages
* Forms can now be accessed like a hash. For example, to set the value
of an input field named 'name' to "Aaron", you can do this:
form['name'] = "Aaron"
Or to get the value of a field named 'name', do this:
puts form['name']
* File uploads will now read the file specified in FileUpload#file_name
* FileUpload can use an IO object in FileUpload#file_data
* Fixed a bug with saving files on windows
* Fixed a bug with the filename being set in forms
=== 0.5.3
* Mechanize#click will now act on the first element of an array. So if an
array of links is passed to WWW::Mechanize#click, the first link is clicked.
That means the syntax for clicking links is shortened and still supports
selecting a link. The following are equivalent:
agent.click page.links.first
agent.click page.links
* Fixed a bug with spaces in href's and get's
* Added a tick, untick, and click method to radio buttons so that
radiobuttons can be "clicked"
* Added a tick, untick, and click method to check boxes so that
checkboxes can be "clicked"
* Options on Select lists can now be "tick"ed, and "untick"ed.
* Fixed a potential bug conflicting with rails. Thanks Eric Kolve
* Updated log4r support for a speed increase. Thanks Yinon Bentor
* Added inspect methods and pretty printing
=== 0.5.2
* Fixed a bug with input names that are nil
* Added a warning when using attr_finder because attr_finder will be deprecated
in 0.6.0 in favor of method calls. So this syntax:
@agent.links(:text => 'foo')
should be changed to this:
@agent.links.text('foo')
* Added support for selecting multiple options in select tags that support
multiple options. See WWW::Mechanize::MultiSelectList.
* New select list methods have been added, select_all, select_none.
* Options for select lists can now be "clicked" which toggles their selection,
they can be "selected" and "unselected". See WWW::Mechanize::Option
* Added a method to set multiple fields at the same time,
WWW::Mechanize::Form#set_fields. Which can be used like so:
form.set_fields( :foo => 'bar', :name => 'Aaron' )
=== 0.5.1
* Fixed bug with file uploads
* Added performance tweaks to the cookie class
=== 0.5.0
* Added pluggable parsers. (Thanks to Eric Kolve for the idea)
* Changed namespace so all classes are under WWW::Mechanize.
* Updating Forms so that fields can be used as accessors (Thanks Gregory Brown)
* Added WWW::Mechanize::File as default object used for unknown content types.
* Added 'save_as' method to Mechanize::File, so any page can be saved.
* Adding 'save_as' and 'load' to CookieJar so that cookies can be saved
between sessions.
* Added WWW::Mechanize::FileSaver pluggable parser to automatically save files.
* Added WWW::Mechanize::Page#title for page titles
* Added OpenSSL certificate support (Thanks Mike Dalessio)
* Removed support for body filters in favor of pluggable parsers.
* Fixed cookie bug adding a '/' when the url is missing one (Thanks Nick Dainty)
=== 0.4.7
* Fixed bug with no action in forms. Thanks to Adam Wiggins
* Setting a default user-agent string
* Added house cleaning to the cookie jar so expired cookies don't stick around.
* Added new method WWW::Form#field to find the first field with a given name.
(thanks to Gregory Brown)
* Added WWW::Mechanize#get_file for fetching non text/html files
=== 0.4.6
* Added support for proxies
* Added a uri field to WWW::Link
* Added a error class WWW::Mechanize::ContentTypeError
* Added image alt text to link text
* Added an visited? method to WWW::Mechanize
* Added Array#value= which will set the first value to the argument. That
allows syntax as such: form.fields.name('q').value = 'xyz'
Before it was like this: form.fields.name('q').first.value = 'xyz'
=== 0.4.5
* Added support for multiple values of the same name
* Updated build_query_string to take an array of arrays (Thanks Michal Janeczek)
* Added WWW::Mechanize#body_filter= so that response bodies can be preprocessed
* Added WWW::Page#body_filter= so that response bodies can be preprocessed
* Added support for more date formats in the cookie parser
* Fixed a bug with empty select lists
* Fixing a problem with cookies not handling no spaces after semicolons
=== 0.4.4
* Fixed error in method signature, basic_authetication is now basic_auth
* Fixed bug with encoding names in file uploads (Big thanks to Alex Young)
* Added options to the select list
=== 0.4.3
* Added syntactic sugar for finding things
* Fixed bug with HttpOnly option in cookies
* Fixed a bug with cookie date parsing
* Defaulted dropdown lists to the first element
* Added unit tests
=== 0.4.2
* Added support for iframes
* Made mechanize dependant on ruby-web rather than narf
* Added unit tests
* Fixed a bunch of warnings
=== 0.4.1
* Added support for file uploading
* Added support for frames (Thanks Gabriel[mailto:leerbag@googlemail.com])
* Added more unit tests
* Fixed some bugs
=== 0.4.0
* Added more unit tests
* Added a cookie jar with better cookie support, included expiration of cookies
and general cookie security.
* Updated mechanize to use built in net/http if ruby version is new enough.
* Added support for meta refresh tags
* Defaulted form actions to 'GET'
* Fixed various bugs
* Added more unit tests
* Added a response code exception
* Thanks to Brian Ellin (brianellin@gmail.com) for:
Added support for CA files, and support for 301 response codes