stripping anchor tags from URIs before passing to rails integration session

lib/webrat/rails.rb

@@ -48,15 +48,18 @@ module Webrat
     
     def do_request(http_method, url, data, headers) #:nodoc:
       update_protocol(url)
-      integration_session.request_via_redirect(http_method, remove_protocol(url), data, headers)
+      url = normalize_url(url)
+      integration_session.request_via_redirect(http_method, url, data, headers)
     end
   
-    def remove_protocol(href) #:nodoc:
+    # remove protocol, host and anchor
-      if href =~ %r{^https?://www.example.com(/.*)}
+    def normalize_url(href) #:nodoc:
-        $LAST_MATCH_INFO.captures.first
+      uri = URI.parse(href)
-      else
+      normalized_url = uri.path
-        href
+      if uri.query
+        normalized_url += "?" + uri.query
       end
+      normalized_url
     end
     
     def update_protocol(href) #:nodoc:

spec/webrat/rails/rails_session_spec.rb

@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ describe Webrat::RailsSession do
     end
   end
   
+  context "the URL include an anchor" do
+    it "should strip out the anchor" do
+      integration_session = mock("integration session", :https! => false)
+      rails_session = Webrat::RailsSession.new(integration_session)
+      integration_session.should_receive(:request_via_redirect).with(:get, "/url", "data", "headers")
+      rails_session.get("http://www.example.com/url#foo", "data", "headers")
+    end
+  end
+  
   it "should provide a saved_page_dir" do
     Webrat::RailsSession.new(mock("integration session")).should respond_to(:saved_page_dir)
   end