Hullo,

I know this has been ask so much that you will flog me for just refering to it.

Anyways, as an Idea, I thought, "hey, what would happen, if in some forum software, it would check if what the person posted for an avatar, or link is a 404 or 403?" Basically, all that it would do, is open a socket with the server, for atleast the image part, and then when it is processing the form data, will notify the user, if the other server spouts out 404 or 403.

So, where is there an article on this? What CPAN modules should I look at?

In reply to Looking for an FAQ... on sockets, http, and other fun stuff by dakedesu

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