[vox] YAPQ (Yet Another Perl Question): Simulating HTTP requests

[Ken Bloom]

--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:30:04PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote:
> I've been pondering all of the "click once a day and donate three bowls of
> rice to a starving child in Ethiopia" type sites.  They're all worthy
> causes, but there are so many of them out there that you could spend an
> entire day just clicking on each "click once a day!" link.
>=20
> So I wonder if there's a way to write a script in Perl that would simulate
> clicking on all of these links.  Where would I even start with this sort
> of project?

Look for charities.cron which already does this for several charities.
I think it uses gawk. I have this run every day at noon.
--=20
I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment.
See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about=20
signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. ***

--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: Digital signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAaJeGlHapveKyytERAusHAJ0bm+wGL+Suc5yoIBczSraNJz52pACgmMKH
b8zwkkopNOhXb8wDfp2mQOA=
=8Sok
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--