Re: Mechanize - redirect problem

Hey John,

Nice detective work! I could imagine that both the solution and the 
method for finding it will help explain a lot of the "It works with xxx 
but not with mech" problems.
Andy - this really belongs in your tips & tricks page. BTW - where is 
the page on the net? Do you mean the FAQ?
Cheers,

Peter

John J Lee wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Martin Kos wrote:
> [...]
>  
>
> > i try to login to the page http://mymobile.sunrise.ch/ but it seems like 
> > mechanize is not doing the redirect that is on the start site... if i 
> > try with my browser or wget i get redirect to a page like 
> > http://mymobile.sunrise.ch/portal/res/guest;jsessionid=HCCISJ1USYYSVQFIGZAXRAQ?paf_dm=full&paf_gear_id=100001&?successURL=/portal/res/member%3Bjsessionid%3DHCCISJ1USYYSVQFIGZAXRAQ
> > i tried it with a simple "get" but it doesn't work and i don't see what 
> > the problem could be... any idea what i'm doing wrong?
> >    
> It wants this header (or similar, but this is a minimal one):
>
> Accept: text/html
>
>
> Maybe mechanize should sent an Accept header by default?
>
> BTW, Martin: I debugged this by just looking at what Firefox sends.  Get
> livehttpheaders.
>
>
> John
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