Category: | Web Stuff |
Author/Contact Info | rob_au |
Description: | This code fragment was written with the intent to minimise some of my system administration overhead by providing a script framework that allowed arbitrary scripting actions to be performed should a web page be modified or updated. The code uses LWP::UserAgent to get a web page and then should the web page have changed since the last execution of the script, as measured by the last_modified header or should this be unavailable, an MD5 digest of the page contents, execute a script subroutine or method. Independent subroutines can be specified for different URLs, in the single example provided, the subroutine virus_alert is executed should the Symantec web page have changed since the last execution of the script. |
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use Carp; use DB_File; use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/; use Fcntl qw/:flock/; use HTTP::Request; use LWP::UserAgent; use URI; use strict; # %despatch_table hash # # The keys of this hash specify the web page to monitor, # with the corresponding hash values containing references # to the script method or subroutine to be executed upon # change in the web page. # my %despatch_table = ( 'http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html' => + 'virus_alert' ); # Create a DBM hash containing the last modification time # or page MD5 hash, indexed by the page URL my %index; my $db = tie %index, 'DB_File', "wpmon.dbm", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666; my $fd = $db->fd(); open (DF, "+<&=$fd") || croak $!; flock (DF, LOCK_EX) || croak $!; # Add any new keys within %despatch_table to the array # of URLs to monitor my @urls = keys %index; foreach my $url (keys %despatch_table) { push (@urls, $url) unless (exists $index{$url}); } my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; foreach my $url (sort @urls) { my $uri = URI->new($url); my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $uri->canonical->as_string +); my $response = $ua->request($request); if ($response->is_success) { # Update measure for page is last_modified header if # defined or failing this, an MD5 digest of the page my $html = $response->content; my $unique = $response->last_modified || md5_hex($html); $index{$url} = $unique unless (exists $index{$url}); if ($index{$url} ne $unique) { # Ensure that a code or method reference still exists # within the %despatch_table hash - If so, execute it # via an eval statement if (exists $despatch_table{$url}) { $html = quotemeta $html; eval qq/ $despatch_table{$url}("$html") /; carp $@ if $@; } $index{$url} = $unique; } } } undef $db; untie %index; close DF; exit 0; sub virus_alert { # ... response code to changed web page within subroutines } |
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