Category: | Web stuff |
Author/Contact Info | rjray |
Description: | This script is derived from one of the examples I developed for the chapter of my book that introduces the SOAP::Lite module. It posts a journal entry to the journal system at use.perl.org, without using the browser interface, and without faking a POST to the CGI interface. It uses instead the still-alpha SOAP interface that use.perl currently offers. All elements of the SOAP request may be specified on the command-line, including entry subject, whether to enable comments, uid and passwd, and the option of reading the entry from a file (the default is to read from STDIN, filter-like). It also will attempt to set the authentication credentials from your Netscape cookie file. But as I said, those can be set by the command-line (and the cmd-line switch overrides the Netscape cookie). In a first-response to this code posting, I will post a XEmacs defun (which should also work under GNU/Emacs) that I use to post from within XEmacs by selecting the text I want to upload into the region. More on that in the follow-up node. --rjray |
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use subs 'make_cookie'; use Getopt::Std; use Digest::MD5 'md5_hex'; use HTTP::Cookies; use SOAP::Lite; use XML::RSS; my (%opts, $title, $discuss, $readfh, $body, $host, $uri, $proxy, $cookie_file, $cookie_jar, $journal, $result); getopts('c:m:f:C:', \%opts) or die <<"USAGE"; Usage: $0 [ -m title ] [ -f file ] [ -c yes|no ] [ -C user:pass ] where: -m title Provide title for the journal entry (default is command name-based) -f file Read the journal entry from FILE instead of STDIN -c yes|no Allow or disallow comments (default is to let your use.perl.org default stand) -C user:pass Provide authentication credentials in place of (or in absence of) Netscape cookie authentication. User in this case is UID, not nickname. USAGE $title = $opts{'m'} || "Generated by $0"; $discuss = (exists $opts{c} && $opts{c} =~ /no/i) ? 0 : 1; if ($opts{f}) { open(FILE, "< $opts{f}") or die "$0: Error opening $opts{f}: $!\n" +; $readfh = \*FILE; } else { $readfh = \*STDIN; } $body = join('', "<!-- posted by $0 -->\n", <$readfh>); $host = 'use.perl.org'; $uri = "http://$host/Slash/Journal/SOAP"; $proxy = "http://$host/journal.pl"; $cookie_file = "$ENV{HOME}/.netscape/cookies"; if ($opts{C}) { $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new; $cookie_jar->set_cookie(0, user => make_cookie(split /:/, $opts{C}, 2 +), '/', $host); } elsif (-f $cookie_file) { $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Netscape->new(File => $cookie_file); } else { die "$0: No authentication data found, cannot continue"; } $journal = SOAP::Lite ->uri($uri) ->proxy($proxy, cookie_jar => $cookie_jar); die "$0: Error creating SOAP::Lite client, cannot continue" unless $journal; $result = $journal->add_entry(subject => $title, body => $body, discuss => $discuss); if ($result->fault) { die "$0: Operation failed: " . $result->faultstring . "\n"; } else { printf "New entry added as %s\n", $result->result; } exit; # Taken from the Slash codebase sub make_cookie { my ($uid, $passwd) = @_; my $cookie = $uid . '::' . md5_hex($passwd); $cookie =~ s/(.)/sprintf("%%%02x", ord($1))/ge; $cookie =~ s/%/%25/g; $cookie; } __END__ |
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(X)Emacs client
by rjray (Chaplain) on Apr 06, 2002 at 08:36 UTC | |
by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 07, 2002 at 01:00 UTC |