How can I convert a relative link in Mechanize to an absolute one?

Question

Is there is a way to convert a Mechanize relative-link object to another one which contains the absolute URL.

Mechanize must know the absolute link, because I can call the click method on relative links too.

Kissinger

Answer 1

You can just merge the page uri (which is always absolute) with the link uri:

page.uri.merge link.uri

Ester

Answer 2

This is not specific to Mechanize, but an easy way would be to use the base URL in the <base> tag and add it to the relative URL to use for whatever purpose you want. This generally works.

But, then I'm not sure if you could call the click method on that since I don't know Mechanize that well.

Beaufort

Answer 3

You can also use resolve

Example:

require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new

page = agent.get(url)

some_rel_url = '/something'

url = agent.resolve(some_rel_url)

Keep in mind that the other answers provided do not take into account all the possibilities to get the base url as described here

Basically this:

Mistymisunderstand