mechanize 2.1 prerelease

drbrain | Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:10:25 GMT

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mechanize 2.1.pre.1 is up on rubygems.org. Notable improvements over mechanize 2.0.1 include:

  • Improvements in handling of connections closed by the server including a connection idle timeout setting and the ability to disable keep-alive connections. This addresses the "too many connection resets" error.
  • Improvements in cookie handling by Akinori MUSHA including cookie behavior like most modern browsers, proper TLD cookie domain handling via the domain_name gem
  • SSL peer certificate validation is enabled by default.

You can read the full list of changes in the mechanize release notes.

You can install the prerelease version of mechanize by running:

gem install mechanize --prerelease

If you find bugs in the prerelease version please file an issue in the mechanize issues tracker on github. comment

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