From blackanger.z at gmail.com  Tue Jan 18 02:37:20 2011
From: blackanger.z at gmail.com (Alex)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:37:20 +0800
Subject: [Mechanize-users] how to get captcha image with mechanize ?
Message-ID: <A3A20C47-997F-483E-995C-AE7ED8A0121D@gmail.com>

Hey, how to get captcha image with mechanize ? the image is not a  
static picture, it's a stream, a text-model.
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From mattw922 at gmail.com  Tue Jan 18 09:36:08 2011
From: mattw922 at gmail.com (mattw922 at gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:36:08 +0000
Subject: [Mechanize-users] how to get captcha image with mechanize ?
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Alex,

The whole point of CAPTCHA is to prevent bots from completing forms.  
Mechanize can't do them. You'll have to try something else.

Matt White

On Jan 18, 2011 12:37am, Alex <blackanger.z at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, how to get captcha image with mechanize ? the image is not a static  
> picture, it's a stream, a text-model.

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From benmanns at gmail.com  Tue Jan 18 16:59:07 2011
From: benmanns at gmail.com (Benjamin Manns)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:59:07 -0500
Subject: [Mechanize-users] how to get captcha image with mechanize ?
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Alex,

You can use mechanize to get the CAPTCHA image (see Mechanize::Page#images),
but you will have to present the image to a user (or another program, not
related to mechanize or this mailing list).

If the CAPTCHA is in a "copy-and-paste-able" textbox (which I think is what
you mean by "not a static picture, it's a stream, a text-model"), you can
use Mechanize::Page#forms and Mechanize::Form#texts or Mechanize::Form#[] to
get the text value.

Ben Manns

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:36 AM, <mattw922 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex,
>
> The whole point of CAPTCHA is to prevent bots from completing forms.
> Mechanize can't do them. You'll have to try something else.
>
> Matt White
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2011 12:37am, Alex <blackanger.z at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey, how to get captcha image with mechanize ? the image is not a static
> picture, it's a stream, a text-model.
> >
>
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