Resumen de Practical perl tools: be the browser
Belive it or not, my sisadmin-themed column for this issue is about Web crawling, automation, scraping, browsing, circumnavigating -whatever you'd like to call it. Why is this something a sisadmin would want to automate, versus, say, a Web developer? Besides your everyday sisadmin-related surfing (searching for reference material or answer to questions, participating in the community, etc.) you may have noticed the increasing number of Web sites to which you need to connect strictly to get you job done. Maybe you need to work with mailing lists, sumit request to a certificate authority, interact with a trouble ticket system, or deal with any number of Web applications. Surely it would be pleasant to reduce the amount of menial pointing and clicking you do on a daily basis. This column can help.
