On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Gedanken wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, John J Lee wrote: > > Yuck. Does it also work if you wave a dead chicken at it? ;-) > > Why not check the HTTP headers to find out what's going wrong? > > the headers are identical as far as i can tell. after all, the code > snippet i sent doesnt actually change anything. whether its mechanize > having problems or the javascript on the servers, i have not a clue. > > i agree with your chicken waving comment, i just dont have a better > explanation.
Forgot to add: the browser must be doing it "right", and if the browser reloads, it's not doing that because it happens to feel like it: There must (presumably!) be some reason -- even if bogus -- why it does so. John