mechanize: Net::HTTP::Persistent::Error: too many connection resets (due to Connection reset by peer - Errno::ECONNRESET) after 2 requests on 14759220

I am trying to do some simple screen scraping on etrade’s website but am getting a similar issue that was reported by someone earlier. I read through that message thread but it doesn’t look like it was ever resolved.

Here is the error I am getting back:

Net::HTTP::Persistent::Error: too many connection resets (due to Connection reset by peer - Errno::ECONNRESET) after 2 requests on 14759220
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/net-http-persistent-1.8/lib/net/http/persistent.rb:446:in `rescue in request'
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/net-http-persistent-1.8/lib/net/http/persistent.rb:422:in `request'
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/mechanize-2.0.1/lib/mechanize/http/agent.rb:204:in `fetch'
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/mechanize-2.0.1/lib/mechanize.rb:628:in `post_form'
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/mechanize-2.0.1/lib/mechanize.rb:520:in `submit'
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/mechanize-2.0.1/lib/mechanize/form.rb:167:in `submit'
    from (irb):74
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:44:in `start'
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
    from /Users/benny/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@taxhaven/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
    from script/rails:6:in `require'
    from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

Here is my code:

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

agent = Mechanize.new
login_page = agent.get("https://www.etrade.com")
form = login_page.form_with(:action => '/login.fcc') 
form.USER     = "test"
form.PASSWORD = "test12"
form.submit

Any ideas?

Thanks