Overview.
The Amazing Sperlderman is a perl program that allows to write perl code in a web browser, execute it, and see the results.
It works by creating his own web server, launching a browser pointed to him, and communicating with it using Ajax.
Changes.
19-jun-2007 Styles and javascript separated from the html. Faster exit.
17-jun-2007 Added authentication.
16-jun-2007 Added blocks file.
15-jun-2007 Added --debug option, minor changes in request to allow usage with proxies.
Documentation.
- Breviario de Sperlderman, a guide to sperlderman usage, in spanish.
Command line options.
- --auth
- Authorization file to use. The file must contain user and password in first and second line.
- --browser
- Web browser to launch, firefox by default.
- --debug
- Show debug info on standard error.
- --file
- Select blocks file to use.
- --host
- Host address to bind, localhost by default. Pass empty string to bind to any address.
- --port
- Port number for server. If 0 or unspecified, it uses a random unprivileged port.
- --serveronly
- Do not launch browser.
Requisites.
Sperlderman uses the HTTP::Daemon module, wich many linux distributions do not include. You can install it from Cpan.
It also uses HTTP::Status, HTTP::Response, HTML::Entities, URI::Escape and Getopt::Long.
A web browser with Ajax capabilities is also required.
License.
The Amazing Sperlderman can be used and distributed under the same license as Perl.
Download.
Revision 16-jun-2007
