comp.lang.ruby

Alex Young

8/4/2006 9:46:00 AM

akanksha wrote:
> I am using mechanize to scrape and I know that mechanize goes to the
> url a browser would redirect me to. However is there some way to
> capture what this new url is?
>
> ex: abcd.com ----------------redirected to --------------------->
> xyz.com
> how can I use mechnize to find xyz.com given abcd.com?
>
> Thanks!
> -A
>
>
I think I'm right in saying that:

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page = agent.get('http://abc...)
puts page.uri.to_s
#=> "http://xyz...

Could be wrong, though. Give it a try.

--
Alex