In porting the Mechanize web scraping library from Ruby, I started with the
following example:
a.get('http://google.com/') do |page|
search_result = page.form_with(:name => 'f') do |search|
search.q = 'Hello world'
end.submit
It GETs
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=Hello+world&gbv=1
I tried to do that with Zinc via formAt: name put:, but when I sent #get,
the query was empty and the response was another blank search form. It took
me some time to figure out what was going on and change to #queryPut:at: in
the GET case, but now I'm managing form logic from the outside. Since GET is
valid for forms (apparently it is the default per
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_method.asp), it seems Zinc should
handle this more gracefully. I would expect it to check for form fields and
add them to the query when doing a GET. What do you think?
n.b. Gofer it
smalltalkhubUser: 'SeanDeNigris' project: 'Mechanize';
package: 'Mechanize';
load.
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Cheers,
Sean
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