The intent was to have a bare-bones self-contained http client with integrated json parser in order to be used on hosts not connected to the internet where only a system Perl 5.16.3 is available and where the installation of an additional package is tedious as I have no root access. Also the number of hosts is high, and the setup is not always the same. So my goal is to keep on a single tools similar to swaks for SMTP.

The result is published on https://github.com/sebkirche/pcurl/

I must confess that I later added a pure Perl support for xml by simply embedding XML::TreePP in the script, but I was challenged to understand and fix that power-regex parser. Also the development is still in-progress and I am adding the possibility to do recursive site retrievals in a way similar to wget

The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else. - Melinda Varian

In reply to Re^4: strange behavior of JSON parsing guru regex by seki
in thread strange behavior of JSON parsing guru regex by seki

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