[hobbit] contchk.sh (submission)

[Charles Jones]

Gary Baluha wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 1:22 PM, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com 
> <mailto:jonescr at cisco.com>> wrote:
>
>     ...I remembered I was using this script when I saw Gary
>     Baluha's urlplus.pl.
>
>     Incidentally, I cannot use urlplus, as it makes use of bbhostgrep,
>     which
>     I discovered fails if your bb-host entries are too long.
>
>
> Hmm, I haven't run into bb-host entries that long.  Can you give an 
> example of one of them? I'd be interested in seeing if my script can 
> be tweaked to work around that issue.
Upon re-testing, it looks like the actual reason for the failure was 
that by default bbhostgrep only finds space-delimited tags, and so to 
find a tag that is tagname=text or tagname;text;text, you must use a 
wildcard - "bbhostgrep tagname*". This is actually in the man page and I 
guess I just didn't read it thoroughly before :)
>
> Incidentally, I'm working on another release of urlplus that adds form 
> submission checking, as well as being able to handle multiple-step 
> form submissions (submit something to one webpage, check the result 
> and submit on that new webpage, etc).  I'm also cleaning up the 
> commenting and rearranging a few things in the code to make it easier 
> to modify (including a hard-coded value that I moved to a 
> user-modifiable constant.
I think Henrik has plans to implement something similar, you basically 
need to be able to dynamically and temporarily store cookies and 
possibly spoof referrer.

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