in reply to Does Perl ring a bell?

Concerning your update, the script on the web server could use LWP to POST a request to a local web server to ring the bell.

Or you could have an image on the page loaded by the link. The image would actually be a CGI script on a local server that returns a small transparent image after ringing the bell.

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Re^2: Does Perl ring a bell?
by ruoso (Curate) on Sep 09, 2005 at 18:10 UTC
    Or you use SMTP and send an email to an account that will do it on the office. This has the advantage of being assinchronous (avoiding locking the real server), and making sure it is delivered (even with some delay).
    daniel
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