acctsrvcs oddities

• Every program presents its own little peculiarities

• For example, acctsrvcs is a web application

• To test this, I used the WWW::Mechanize module

  • I subclassed it with methods specific for acctsrvcs

     my $agent = 
      WWW::Mechanize::MJD->acctsrvcs(autocheck => 1, 
                                     die => 1, 
                                     section => 'spam');

• This logs in through websec

  • Including the silly "You already have a session running" page

• Then it goes to the "spam filtering" section of acctsrvcs

  • Alternative approach:

• Write a library that sets up the CGI environment variables

• it runs and acctsrvcs directly, as if it were a web server

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