which parser will you use to parse HTML? On 02 Mar 2014, at 06:49, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote:
> 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. > > > > > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Zinc-bug-submitting-form-via-GET-tp4747276.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >