[prog] Seeking Perl/Mailman scripts

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:20, Mary wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 23:03, Mary wrote:
> > > Any program... which can run with the appropriate permissions. In
> > > particular, the need of those programs to write out log files is
> > > hindering me.
> >
> > This may not be what you are after, but what about XML-RPC?
>
> I assume you mean that Mailman has XML-RPC interfaces? If so that would
> be good. I didn't think to look!

Ah.  I have no idea if it actually has such an interface, but I would be 
supprised.  I guess I meant the latter (below).

> If you mean "implement some XML-RPC interfaces for Mailman!", well, I'm
> trying to write an interface between an existing system and a Mailman
> list on an install over which I do not have control :(

What I have done in the past to automate a web-based system I had no 
code-level control over is use Python to interact with the http form 
directly.  I wrote a small class based on HTMLParser to help.  (I'm happy to 
share this.)

Perl probably has something equivalent.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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