[ANN] mechanize 0.7.6 Released

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Aaron Patterson

mechanize version 0.7.6 has been released!

* <http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/>

The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites.
Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects,
can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and
submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have visited as
a history.

Changes:

### 0.7.6

* New Features:
* Added support for reading Mozilla cookie jars. Thanks Chris Riddoch!
* Moving text, password, hidden, int to default. Thanks Tim Harper!
* Mechanize#history_added callback for page loads. Thanks Tobi Reif!
* Mechanize#scheme_handlers callbacks for handling unsupported schemes on
links.

* Bug Fixes:
* Ignoring scheme case
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470642
* Not encoding tildes in uris. Thanks Bruno. [#19380]
* Resetting request bodys when retrying form posts. Thanks Bruno. [#19379]
* Throwing away keep alive connections on EPIPE and ECONNRESET.
* Duplicating request headers when retrying a 401. Thanks Hiroshi Ichikawa.
* Simulating an EOF error when a response length is bad. Thanks Tobias Gruetzmacher.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19178&group_id=1453&atid=5711
* Defaulting option tags to the inner text.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19976&group_id=1453&atid=5709
* Supporting blank strings for option values.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19975&group_id=1453&atid=5709

* <http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/>
 

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