9056Casthat Overviewhttp://www.artscore.net/casthat/Casthat is a web-based news aggregator program written in Perl. It supports web servers running on both UNIX and NT platforms. The only requirement for running Casthat is that your web server supports Perl CGI applications. Your Perl version must also include the IO::Socket module, which is standard in Perl 5, but which some web host companies forget to install. If you're not sure if you can run Perl CGI programs on your server, please first ask your ISP before you try to install Casthat.CGI and Perl > Scripts and Programs > Web FetchingOct 11, 2006
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This perl script counts the number of links on a page. For a list of webpages, it also calculates the average number of links per page.
It is rather simple. It fetches a web page and parses it for links, counting them as it goes.
I wrote it for my own amusement. When I was first creating web pages, you kept the pages simple. The rule-of-thumb was to keep the choices a user had to make under seven. Put simply, we tried to limit the number of links on a page, not neccesarily to just seven, because you would have navigation links. However, we attempted to keep it simple to navigate and actually find something on the page.
Casthat is a web-based news aggregator program written in Perl. It supports web servers running on both UNIX and NT platforms. The only requirement for running Casthat is that your web server supports Perl CGI applications. Your Perl version must also include the IO::Socket module, which is standard in Perl 5, but which some web host companies forget to install. If you're not sure if you can run Perl CGI programs on your server, please first ask your ISP before you try to install Casthat.
JSMFeed.pl is a Perl script that converts RSS XML feeds into standard browser side JavaScript in JSMsg convention. It takes a URL to an RSS feed as input and outputs a JavaScript file containing all the information from the RSS feed in JSMsg format. It can be called directly from the
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