Greetings to you all! I've been given a (IMHO) hard task at work. We need to script a monitor/sentry that connects to a webpage (with the abillity to pass username/password to the page) and checks to see if it returns a good or bad result. The monitor should preferably be possible to code without using modules in perl4 to minimize impact on the current environment on the server. Is this at all possible under these circumstances or are there any hints on any better solution? The platform in use is win nt/2k and the reason I turn to Perl is because the monitor/sentry is to be run under Tivoli Distributed Monitoring. Any ideas? Any help is greatly accepted! /Freddy

In reply to monitoring a webpage using perl4 without using modules? by Fr3ddy

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