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If you are trying to download a website with LWP::UserAgent in Perl through HTTPS, you might encounter errors like this: Can’t locate object method “new” via package “LWP::Protocol::https::Socket” The solution to this problem is to install the ssl development libraries, and then install the Crypt::SSLeay Perl module. To do this in Debian or Ubuntu, open [...]
Everybody knows services like milw0rm.com‘s md5 cracking database, where you can submit a hash and get the plaintext password, if it is cracked. Today I discovered Digest::MD5::Reverse, a perl module to search several online MD5 hash databases. So I whipped up a little script to lookup md5 hashes, to place in my ~/bin: #!/usr/bin/perl use [...]
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For some time I have wanted to play with the json-rpc interface of Transmission. Today I jumped into it. I decided to make a program that would run on my local computer and should be called via cron every X minutes, and scan a directory for .torrent files. Any .torrent files found should be added [...]
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