Curlser -- Emulating browser with CURL

Rails specific reatures:

• Extracts and uses Ruby on Rails CSRF token
• When following redirects, Curlser does not violate RFC 2616/10.3.3 (switch from POST to GET in 302)
  • After POST, follow redirection and keep the request POST to address ERROR WEBrick::HTTPStatus::LengthRequired
  • This might not be a good idea, see TODÖ

Other features:

• Stores cookies
• Sets referrer automatically
• Stores responses in working dir

Example

require 'curlser'

c = Curlser.new("http://localhost:3000")

c.get "/"
c.post "/users/sign_in", { "user[login]" => "quentin",
                           "user[password]" => "monkey" }

c.get "/"

# Now, this should be the response for the signed in user
puts c.responses.last

TODO

• Deal with POST->GET in 302 without exploding WEBrick and others
• Rewrite with curb?