# Mechanize click()-Problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 12, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-click-problem/128835 "2008-02-12T00:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![kien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/76d3ee/32.png) [@kien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kien)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-click-problem/128835/1 "2008-02-12T00:54:47Z")

Hello, I try to log on to a website using mechanize. I can submit my username and password, but when I get redirected I have a problem. I want to click on a link using following code: link = page.links.href(/index.php?ahcd\_obj=([a-z]|[0-9])\*/) page = agent.click(link) (The RegExp is fine, I tested it manually) It looks as if there is some hidden redirect or something like that, because the result is always the same, that is I’m still on the same page. That’s one of those links: Help is welcome. ---

**Author:** ![kien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/76d3ee/32.png) [@kien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kien)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-click-problem/128835/2 "2008-02-12T08:36:31Z")

Toni Keller wrote: > It looks as if there is some hidden redirect or something like that, > because the result is always the same, that is I’m still on the same > page. The server can accomplish a redirect by sending back a page that is the same as the original page, but that has a html tag. The html tag can direct the browser go to a specified url in a given number of seconds, which can be 0 seconds. If that is the case, then you need to get the url specified in the tag. You can examine the html of the page to see if it has a html tag by looking at the output from: page = agent.get(‘[http://google.com/](http://google.com/)’) puts page.body #which appears to be undocumented Try that and post the first 20 lines or so of the output. ---

**Author:** ![kien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/76d3ee/32.png) [@kien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kien)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-click-problem/128835/3 "2008-02-12T13:28:21Z")

7stud – wrote: > Try that and post the first 20 lines or so of the output. “\n\nxxxx - Human Control Detector\n\