Method: Mechanize::HTTP::Agent#initialize

Defined in:
lib/mechanize/http/agent.rb

#initialize(connection_name = 'mechanize') ⇒ Agent

The connection_name can be used to segregate SSL connections. Agents with different names will not share the same persistent connection.

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# File 'lib/mechanize/http/agent.rb', line 143

def initialize(connection_name = 'mechanize')
  @allowed_error_codes      = []
  @conditional_requests     = true
  @context                  = nil
  @content_encoding_hooks   = []
  @cookie_jar               = Mechanize::CookieJar.new
  @follow_meta_refresh      = false
  @follow_meta_refresh_self = false
  @gzip_enabled             = true
  @history                  = Mechanize::History.new
  @ignore_bad_chunking      = false
  @keep_alive               = true
  @max_file_buffer          = 100_000 # 5MB for response bodies
  @open_timeout             = nil
  @post_connect_hooks       = []
  @pre_connect_hooks        = []
  @read_timeout             = nil
  @redirect_ok              = true
  @redirection_limit        = 20
  @request_headers          = {}
  @robots                   = false
  @robots_mutex             = Mutex.new
  @user_agent               = nil
  @webrobots                = nil
  @write_timeout            = nil

  # HTTP Authentication
  @auth_store           = Mechanize::HTTP::AuthStore.new
  @authenticate_parser  = Mechanize::HTTP::WWWAuthenticateParser.new
  @authenticate_methods = Hash.new do |methods, uri|
    methods[uri] = Hash.new do |realms, auth_scheme|
      realms[auth_scheme] = []
    end
  end
  @digest_auth          = Net::HTTP::DigestAuth.new
  @digest_challenges    = {}

  # SSL
  @pass = nil

  @scheme_handlers = Hash.new { |h, scheme|
    h[scheme] = lambda { |link, page|
      raise Mechanize::UnsupportedSchemeError.new(scheme, link)
    }
  }

  @scheme_handlers['http']      = lambda { |link, page| link }
  @scheme_handlers['https']     = @scheme_handlers['http']
  @scheme_handlers['relative']  = @scheme_handlers['http']
  @scheme_handlers['file']      = @scheme_handlers['http']

  @http =
    if defined?(Net::HTTP::Persistent::DEFAULT_POOL_SIZE)
      Net::HTTP::Persistent.new(name: connection_name)
    else
      # net-http-persistent < 3.0
      Net::HTTP::Persistent.new(connection_name)
    end
  @http.idle_timeout = 5
  @http.keep_alive   = 300
end