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    <p>I am using Mechanize and Nokogiri in my Ruby on Rails application to scrape our local printers administration panel to retrieve the number of printed pages in the printers lifetime.</p> <p>I have the following rake task:</p> <pre><code># Logs into printer admin page and retrieved counts. require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' require 'logger' # Create a new mechanize object agent = Mechanize.new # Load the printer admin page page = agent.get("http://192.168.1.126/index.html?lang=1") # Select the form with an action of index.cqi form = agent.page.form_with(:action =&gt; "index.cgi") form.radiobuttons_with(:id =&gt; '0x3fdb24153404')[1] # Submit the form page = form.submit form.buttons.first pp page </code></pre> <p>That returns the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; &lt;!-- window.onload=function(){setTimeout(function(){document.menu_link.submit();},0);} //--&gt; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form name="menu_link" action="index.html" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="lang" value="1"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I don't seem to be able to select the form on the above page, and the script seems to stop at that page and not follow the redirect. </p> <p>Is there a standard way of working with these kind of redirects? Maybe pausing the script until the redirect has taken place? Would it every allow the redirect to work?</p> <p>Any pointers would be appreciated!</p>
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