New Perl project almost done
December 7, 2006
I been kind of working on a new perl script for the past week or so. I am making an AOL Instant Messenger bot that when i send a message to it that it will connect to my Linksys router’s web based management page, pull back what the WAN IP address of the router is and IM it back to me. At the moment i was able to hack together a pretty basic perl bot and code that will scrape the router’s web interface to get the WAN IP. I just need to get them together.
I thought it would be a cool after i read an article on Lifehacker for a Perl based budget bot. I wanted something to let me know what my IP was so that i can connect to my home network from anywhere.
I realize that there are better ways of doing this, but this was more of a exercise for me to continue working on my perl skills. When i get and get everything finalized I’ll be putting together a project page with all the details and code for anyone that is interested.
