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The dangers of geek boredom

After having listed a bunch of items for one of my daughters; I decided to unload one of my expired license plates. When I lived in Virginia, I wrote a PERL script that crawled my server farm attempting to register the vanity plate of 'UNIX' on Virginia's DMV site. One day, it succeeded. I didn't list the link here, as the point wasn't to promote the auction as much as it was to show the dangers of being bored. Note the starting price representing a common umask. Cheers,

Keith
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Net::Proxy::Connector::dual(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Net::Proxy::Connector::dual(3pm)

NAME
Net::Proxy::Connector::dual - Y-shaped Net::Proxy connector DESCRIPTION
"Net::Proxy::Connecter::dual" is a "Net::Proxy::Connector" that can forward the connection to two distinct services, based on the client connection, before any data is exchanged. CONNECTOR OPTIONS
This connector can only work as an "in" connector. The "server_first" and "client_first" options are required: they are hashrefs containing the options necessary to create two "out" "Net::Proxy::Connector" objects that will be used to connect to the requested service. The "Net::Proxy::Connector::dual" object decides between the two services by waiting during a short timeout. If the client sends some data directly, then it is connected via the "client_first" connector. Otherwise, at the end of the timeout, it is connected via the "server_first" connector. o host The hostname on which the connector will listen for client connections. Default is "localhost". o port The port on which the connector will listen for client connections. o server_first Typically an "out" connector to a SSH server or any service that sends a banner line. o client_first Typically an "out" connectrot to a web server or SSL server. o timeout The timeout in seconds (can be decimal) to make a decision. Default is 1 second. AUTHOR
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, "<book@cpan.org>". ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This module is based on a script named sslh, which I wrote with Frederic Ple "<sslh@wattoo.org>" (who had the original insight about the fact that not all servers speak first on the wire). Frederic wrote a C program, while I wrote a Perl script (based on my experience with connect-tunnel). Now that "Net::Proxy" is available, I've ported the Perl script to use it. COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2006 Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, All Rights Reserved. LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2009-10-18 Net::Proxy::Connector::dual(3pm)