Post an argument to a perl/php page.

[Proqrammer]

Hi there, I wanna be able to post a variable (let's say a string) to a PHP or Perl page. Are there any commands or tools to do this under any version of Linux? what different ways are there to do this?

 

[stevexff]

Perl's LWP package can do what you want. Plus a whole lot more.

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/LWP.pm

Of course, if you only want to see if it's working (rather than setting up a nice reusable test harness) and you don't mind going old-school and primitive, you can always telnet localhost 80 and just paste in the request...

Steve

[small]"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." (Object:erlDesignPatterns)[/small]

 

[thedaver]

cURL is also very useful, can simulate forms, POST, GET, etc.

http://curl.haxx.se/

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