You can't prove it on me, because I never gave that code to anyone and deleted it ages ago, but when I started to write programs with perl, I had a bot that popened to netcat to perform a http request. I've no idea how that must have worked because obviously it has to feed data both to the input of netcat and read its output, so I assume it was something like $resp = `echo 'GET /$parms HTTP/1.1\nHost: example.com\n' | nc example.com 80`. (Note however that there was no many-argument pipe open at that time in perl 5.5005 or 5.6.) That it extracted data from the response html with bad regexen doesn't count as a big sin compared to the above I guess.

In reply to Re^2: It's the little things... by ambrus
in thread It's the little things... by Lady_Aleena

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