diff --git a/lib/capybara/spec/session.rb b/lib/capybara/spec/session.rb
index b6c25171..bf9004d6 100644
--- a/lib/capybara/spec/session.rb
+++ b/lib/capybara/spec/session.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/session/*'].each { |group| require group }
 
 shared_examples_for "session" do
   def extract_results(session)
-    YAML.load Nokogiri::HTML(session.body).xpath("//pre[@id='results']").first.text
+    YAML.load Nokogiri::HTML(session.body).xpath("//pre[@id='results']").first.text.lstrip
   end
 
   after do