That sounds to me like testing/verifying a web application. If that is the case, WWW::Mechanize together with Test::HTML::Content might be a solution, as might the HTTP::Webtest kit.

The scripts you'd use for either of the two are different from what you envision - HTTP::Webtest gets close to your usage though.

As I am the author of Test::HTML::Content and WWW::Mechanize::Shell, I would create some extension to WWW::Mechanize::Shell to accept some more commands to test the web pages, and then generate the Perl scripts from those command scripts, which then again, Test::Harness would run for me...

The www-mechanize-dev mailing list on http://www.sourceforge.net has Mark Stosberg on it, who does such stuff.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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