can't login to linkedin about mechanize HOT 14 CLOSED

We figured out the reason for this, mechanize seems to be processing the value of the cookie and removing the surrounding quotes in it. But LinkedIn seems to have changed something (internally) that made it choke if those quotes are not there.

So, mechanize should follow the RFC([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt]) and don't do any processing in the value.

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If you could please submit a failing test case for this, it would be a huge help in fixing it. Based on the above description, I don't have any easy way to reproduce this issue.

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This is the cookie generated by Mechanize alone, which doesn't work:

#<Mechanize::Cookie:0x64bbb50
@comment=nil,
@comment_url=nil,
@discard=nil,
@Domain="www.linkedin.com",
@expires=nil,
@max_age=nil,
@name="JSESSIONID",
@path="/",
@PORT=nil,
@secure=false,
@value="ajax:0403970942817037868",
@Version=1>,

This is the working cookie:

#<Mechanize::Cookie:0x60f62d0
@comment=nil,
@comment_url=nil,
@discard=nil,
@Domain="www.linkedin.com",
@expires=nil,
@max_age=nil,
@name="JSESSIONID",
@path="/",
@PORT=nil,
@secure=false,
@value=""ajax:0067975378067751123"",
@Version=0>,

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Adding:

I had to manually correct (add double quotes) these three cookies to get it to work:

leo_auth_token
s_leo_auth_token
JSESSIONID

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This is exactly what we did to make it work, it seems that mechanize is ignoring quotes when they are needed.

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I just sent a patch to the Mechanize Users mailing list with a test case that hopefully captures this issue.

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rossf7's tests and a fix at http://github.com/smparkes/mechanize/commit/631ce39f9d4843f62aefc6cdbb2b4576a2f5bd6b

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Can someone send a pull request for this? Would make my life easier ... :) Thank you for the extra effort!

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Ah - just saw the pull request. Never mind!

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Someone already merged it in. Shrug.

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Yeah, Aaron went on a tear yesterday. (Thanks Aaron.)

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Hi,

I can't login on linkedin using mechanize.
Here is the script I'm using:

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

agent = Mechanize.new
page = agent.get('https://www.linkedin.com/secure/login')
form = page.form('login')
form.session_key = 'my_email_login'
form.session_password = 'my_password'
form.click_button

I've tried several different ways to login, I also tried the script above but I always have the same response:

=> #<Mechanize::Page
 {url #<URI::HTTPS:0xc8105b8 URL:https://www.linkedin.com/secure/login>}
 {meta}
 {title nil}
 {iframes}
 {frames}
 {links #<Mechanize::Page::Link "click here" "http://www.linkedin.com/home">}
 {forms}>

I have been able to login on some other systems, I don't know why it doesn't work on linkedin.

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This issue is closed. If you're looking for support on how to use mechanize, please email the mechanize-users mailing list. Thanks!

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No problemo, it works now anyway :)
Cheers!

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