class WWW::Mechanize

def get(options, parameters = [], referer = nil)
  unless options.is_a? Hash
    url = options
    unless parameters.respond_to?(:each) # FIXME: Remove this in 0.8.0
      referer = parameters
      parameters = []
    end
  else
    raise ArgumentError.new("url must be specified") unless url = options[:url]
    parameters = options[:params] || []
    referer = options[:referer]
    headers = options[:headers]
  end
  unless referer
    if url =~ /^http/
      referer = Page.new(nil, {'content-type'=>'text/html'})
    else
      referer = current_page || Page.new(nil, {'content-type'=>'text/html'})
    end
  end
  # FIXME: Huge hack so that using a URI as a referer works.  I need to
  # refactor everything to pass around URIs but still support
  # WWW::Mechanize::Page#base
  unless referer.is_a?(WWW::Mechanize::File)
    referer = referer.is_a?(String) ?
      Page.new(URI.parse(referer), {'content-type' => 'text/html'}) :
      Page.new(referer, {'content-type' => 'text/html'})
  end
  # fetch the page
  page = fetch_page(  :uri      => url,
                      :referer  => referer,
                      :headers  => headers || {},
                      :params   => parameters
                   )
  add_to_history(page)
  yield page if block_given?
  page
end