perl

I just viewed a very nice #31c3 talk about a well known issue with certain functions within two very widely used perl-modules (DBI & CGI). When I heard the arguments brought to the presenter from the audience within the Q&A, I thought to myself, well, they’re right. All of these attack vectors are in theory something that could have been prevented by just flatten arguments (as you always should). Then again, this makes for a really, really messy programming style that does not come easy if you were programming any other programming language prior to perl....

Just finished a script, that enables me or anyone else who cares to send tweets directly to a IRC-Channel. The script is powered by the best IRC-Client ever made, perl, and Net::Twitter::Lite. Update [2023-08-18]: Nobody should use twitter or perl or irc any more ;) Update [2013-06-15]: upgrade to Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1 Update [2013-01-12]: second update today added the setting “_count” and some cleanups with vars and setup Update [2013-01-12]: drastically reduced the amout of requests to the API P....

I was just writing a small script for automatizing something via a REST-API and I had to manually add an authorization to all my GET-Requests, which really annoyed me. (it was not Realm-sensitive, so I couldn’t set up auth in the UA itself). So I wrote this small sub I would like to share: #getrequests shorthand sub getReq { my ( $url, $username, $password ) = @_; my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => $url ); if ( $username && $password ) { $req->authorization_basic( $username, $password ); } my $res = $ua->request($req); if ( $res->is_success ) { return $res; } else { warn $res->status_line; return undef; } } All you need to call a HTTP-Base-Auth’d site now is:...

Once upon a time I was asked by one of our javadevelopers if i can send a csv in proper xml to one of his webservices. Of course I can. As usual i decided to use perl and Text::CSV to read in the CSV as well as LWP::UserAgent to send the xml to the (soap-)webservice. After having a second look on the code, where I put in several nodes at the fourth level of the xml-tree, managing all the intents just via print, I found myself doing something like this:...