Alex replies (last week) to my question of last week:

> I'm not sure what you mean by handling multi-stage POSTs - do you mean
> ones with data persisting in hidden fields that are sent back and forth
> a few times?

    No, the results of the initial POST is a page with meta-tags forcing
refreshes every second, until the real results page is available and
can be returned.

    Turns out I wasn't reading the RFC quite right -- simply repeating the
POST with the same HTTP::Request worked just fine.

    And thanks for the pointers towards other web-testing packages for
Ruby.  I'll explore and introduce locally.


        Joseph Beckenbach
        lead XP tester, Eidogen Inc.
        http://acceptor.tigris.org/