#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw 
use strict;

my $data = "/path/to/quotes/here";
my $output;

$/ = "\n";
$data = '/path/to/quotes/here';
open DATA, $data or die "can't open data file: $!\n";
srand;
rand($.) < 1 && ($output = $_) while <DATA>;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n\n";
print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>this is the random quote server</TITLE></HEA
+D>\n";
print "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\" TEXT=\"#000000\" LINK=\"#0047D5\" ALI
+NK=\"#005500\" VLINk=\"#000080\">\n";
print "<FONT FACE=\"Arial, Helvetica, Sans Serif\"><BR><BR>\n";
print "<p><CENTER><BLOCKQUOTE>$output</BLOCKQUOTE></CENTER>";

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