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Mechanize v2.1.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2012-02-03 // about 12 years ago
    • 🐛 Bug fixes
      • Set missing idle_timeout default. Issue #196
      • Meta refresh URIs are now escaped (excluding %). Issue #177
      • Fix charset name extraction. Issue #180
      • A Referer URI sent on request no longer includes user information or fragment part.
      • Tempfiles for storing response bodies are unlinked upon creation to avoid possible lack of finalization. Issue #183
      • The default maximum history size is now 50 pages to avoid filling up a disk with tempfiles accidentally. Related to Issue #183
      • Errors in bodies with deflate and gzip responses now result in a Mechanize::Error instead of silently being ignored and causing future errors. Issue #185
      • Mechanize now raises an UnauthorizedError instead of crashing when a 403 response does not contain a www-authenticate header. Issue #181
      • Mechanize gives a useful exception when attempting to click buttons across pages. Issue #186
      • Added note to Mechanize#cert_store describing how to add certificates in case your system does not come with a default set. Issue #179
      • Invalid content-disposition headers are now ignored. Issue #191
      • Fix NTLM by recognizing the "Negotiation" challenge instead of endlessly looping. Issue #192
      • Allow specification of the NTLM domain through Mechanize#auth. Issue #193
      • Documented how to convert a Mechanize::ResponseReadError into a File or Page, along with a new method #force_parse. Issue #176