# Mechanize 0.6.6 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-0-6-6-released/90025>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 25, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-0-6-6-released/90025 "2007-03-25T04:26:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![aaronpowell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@aaronpowell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aaronpowell)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-0-6-6-released/90025/1 "2007-03-25T04:26:18Z")

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mechanize version 0.6.6 has been released!

[http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/](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:

= Mechanize CHANGELOG

== 0.6.6

- Removing hpricot overrides

- Fixed a bug where alt text can be nil. Thanks Yannick!

- Unparseable expiration dates in cookies are now treated as session  
cookies

- Caching connections

- Requests now default to keep alive

- [#9434] Fixed bug where html entities weren’t decoded

- [#9150] Updated mechanize history to deal with redirects

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**Author:** ![aaronpowell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@aaronpowell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aaronpowell)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-0-6-6-released/90025/2 "2007-06-17T15:35:22Z")

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Can you please exaplain me the mechanize’s follow redirect  
functionality. It can mechanize done it autometically or there is some  
other tricks ?