Re: quick and dirty Netsaint plugins with Perl question

Subhendu Ghosh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.netsaint.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Threet, Robert A wrote:

> I've never written a plugin... I have a service I want to check that
> uses a POST via HTTPS.  Can I simply use Perl's LWP to submit the
> request and grep the response for the correct response?  Like
> 
> if ($response =~ m/okay/) {
>          print "0";   # for return 0
> } else {
>          print "-1";  # for return -1
> }
> 
> 

quick and dirty :)

you want a print statement for the viewable ouput
and you want a return/exit statement with the return code.

currently - you are just showing a print statement.

-- 

-sg



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