9 June 2008 - 11:44Script Writing Contest?

I was surfing around the web lastnight and happened upon a site 10 linux commands you’ve never used. I went through the list. And learned a few things. With my interest peaked I headed to the main page, and thats when I saw it.

A contest, thats right a script writing contest. Now I am no expert, but I do like to write scripts, and do like to tinker. At first I had no intention of entering, but I figured I’d give it a try and see if I could improve the script.

I tinkered and I tinkered, and finally got something working, started adding features and before I knew it I had something pretty good and useful. So I submitted it. My entry can be downloaded here.

So what is it? What is it used for? Well it allows you to make http requests to webservers via the command line. You can view the header information and raw html output.

I’m not sure how I will stack up, or how many entries have been submitted, but wish me luck still the same. For me it wasn’t about winning, it was more about writing something useful.