I'm trying to sign into and establish a session on an ASP.NET site programmatically using Ruby Mechanize. The problem is that I cannot seem to be able to grab the three cookies required for login/authentication.
For example, when using a normal browser, such as Chrome, after the browser makes a POST request to the login form with the username and password, three cookies are set:
ASPXAUTHASP.NET_SessionIdUserName
When using Mechanize to try and log in, after the login form is submitted, the Mechanize agent's Mechanize::CookieJar only contains one cookie: ASP.NET_SessionID.
This obviously causes any subsequent requests for pages behind login to fail and complain that "The session is expired" and to "please sign in again."
Is there anyway I can grab the other two cookie programmatically? It doesn't have to necessarily be through Mechanize, but there has to be some way to pass this cookie to it.
It turns out that some (most) ASP.NET button clicks are handled via Javascript. The current version of Mechanize (2.7) does not support Javascript interaction. I switched to Capybara WebKit as the headless driver. I was able then able to interact with the buttons I needed.