[Mechanize-users] handling protocol violations

[Aaron Patterson]

Hi Eduardo,

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:37:16PM +0100, Eduardo Fernandez Corrales wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have found a webserver that spits the cookie version as a float
> (1.2) instead of an integer as the protocol mandates.
> (www.alimentacion.carrefour.es)
> 
> So far I have been changing line 33 in cookie.rb from
> 
> when "version" then cookie.version = Integer(value)
> to
> when "version" then cookie.version = Integer(value.round)
> 
> Of course every time WWW:Mechanize gets updated, I have to do the change again.
> 
> How should we handle this? I am sure there has to be a better way.

Mechanize should handle this malformed header without blowing up.  I'll
set the version to nil when it is invalid and send a warning message to
the logger.

> 
> Thank you very much, I am really having fun using this fine piece of software.
> 
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