on 6/27/02 4:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: > I keep hearing from various sources that perl is a great tool for > testing web sites. > > I've been looking around for a script that would take a list of urls and > automatically run through them, digging through frames and client-side > redirects, reporting errors it finds as it goes. I guess my imagination > is getting weak, because I keep turning up dead ends at google. > > Anybody here seen such a beast, have any recommendations? > > One idea that would really be neat would be a script that uses apple > events to push a browser on a Mac to show the pages as it goes.
You are looking for the LWP bundle. It comes with MacPerl 5.6. You can check out http://www.perldoc.com for docs or use shuck. You will, however, have to do client side redirects in your code (LWP doesn't do meta-refresh and doesn't understand JavaScript). You will also have to handle client side image maps manually as well. Check out lwpcook.pod for examples. Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
