lib/webrat/adapters/mechanize.rb ignores http headers

Looks webrat ignores http headers (when we tried to manually set http headers), for example

def rating
   url_path = '/rating';# + id
   header "Accept", "text/xml"
   visit(
       @url + url_path,
       :post
   )
end

So i take a look closer into lib/webrat/adapters/mechanize.rb, and i saw this line of code inside method 'post'

@response = mechanize.post(url, post_data)

, i think this is the problem.

I change the line with

@response = mechanize.post(url, post_data, headers_argument_not_used)

And now looks everything is okay (i hope).

Gracefully support HTTP errors

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

a = Mechanize.new { |agent| agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'  }
a.get(:url => 'http://example.com',
      :headers => {'Accept' => 'text/xml', 'Connection' =>'keep-live'}
     )
puts a.page.body

If mechanize found error code '401' (for example) then mechanize will raise error message:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-1.0.0/lib/mechanize.rb:614:in 
`fetch_page': 401 => Net::HTTPUnauthorized (Mechanize::ResponseCodeError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-1.0.0/lib \
/mechanize.rb:259:in `get'
from agent-test.rb:6

I dont know but what i really want from this gem is return 'http error message' rather than raise an error and die (if they found http error codes).

So far to get things done maybe i'll replace this line of code (mechanize.rb, def fetch_page)

raise ResponseCodeError.new(page) unless @user || @password

With

return page unless @user || @password

Also you can watch the request here http://github.com/tenderlove/mechanize/issues#issue/16


**Update**
Maybe using rescue is better

begin
  a.get(:url => 'http://example.com',
        :headers => {
                     'Accept' => 'text/xml', 
                     'Connection' =>'keep-alive'
                    })
  rescue WWW::Mechanize::ResponseCodeError
  puts $!.page.body
end