This gets a list of the latest vulnerabilities from linuxsecurity.com (in rdf format) and compares it with the last one sent. If its new it uses SprintPCS's website to send a message to my phone with the title. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Socket;
use strict;

my $xml_location = "http://www.linuxsecurity.com/linuxsecurity_advisor
+ies.rdf";
my $sprint_site  = "http://www.messaging.sprintpcs.com/sms/check_messa
+ge_syntax.html";
my $mobile_num   = "1234567890";
my $callback     = "";
my $ack_email    = "";
my $save_result  = "/scripts/wap/current";
my ($message, $page, @host, $item, @line, $current);

&do_socket ($xml_location, "GET $xml_location" );
while (<HTML>) {
    @line = split (/>/);
    if ($item) {
        $line[1] =~ s/<\/title//;
        open (CUR, $save_result);
        $current = <CUR>;
        close (CUR);
        if ($line[1] ne $current) {
            open (NEW, ">$save_result");
            print NEW $line[1];
            close (NEW);
            $message = $line[1];
            $message =~ s/ /%20/g;
            &do_socket ($sprint_site, "POST $sprint_site?mobilenum".
              "=$mobile_num&callbacknum=$callback&message=$message".
              "&ack_add=$ack_email");
        }
        close (HTML);
        exit;
    }
    elsif ($line[0] =~ /<item/) {
        $item = 1;
        next;
    }
}

sub do_socket {
    my ($temp, $action) = @_;
    @host = split (/\//, $temp);
    socket (HTML, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname ('tcp'));
    connect (HTML, sockaddr_in (80, inet_aton ($host[2])));
    send (HTML, "$action HTTP/1.0\n\n", '0');
}

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