Hello there,
My blog has finally moved here, this place should be its final location.
Let’s start with some Perl. I needed to build a small robot to fake human interaction on a web site. Perl provides great tools for that :
- IO::Socket::INET for raw stuff
- of course the good old LWP, and the associated lwp-request script
- HTTP:: Proxy, a new module very useful and powerful
- the excellent WWW::Mechanize and the associated mech-dump
that, with the firefox LiveHTTPheader extension, and ethereal, gives you great power.
My small contribution : a trivial patch to add basic authentication in mech-dump, as it is available in lwp-request.