Authentication remembered across PUTs

[Ben Hidalgo]

I'm using HTTParty to test a REST service.  It works great except when I actually test the:  valid-login, valid-user-bad-pass, bad-user-valid-pass flow.  The "wrong password" test actually fails because it successfully authenticates even though I'm passing an invalid password in the {:basic_auth => ...} Hash.  I suspect the HTTParty PUT method is "remembering" the valid credential and somehow offering it... perhaps in a cookie.

Does anyone know how to clear out the cookies (instance and/or class)?  Or has anyone else observed this behavior?  

I've read the source code and couldn't figure out how to access @default_cookies

I also used the static initializer 

class MyParty

    

    include HTTParty

    cookies {}

...

end

but to no avail.

Thanks!

Ben