Most Popular Scripts | CGI & Perl

User authentication for Perl/CGI applications. Uses MD5-based encryption on both the client browser (using JavaScript MD5) and the server (using Digest::MD5). The password is never stored or transmitted as plain text. User sessions are maintained with an MD5-encrypted cookie. The perl module LoginMD5.pm and an example program mainProgram.cgi are included, along with installation instructions.

Logdog is a tool that monitors messages passing through syslogd and takes action based on key words and phrases. Logdog has an easy to read configuration file which allows you to specify a list of key words or phrases to alert on, and a list of commands that can be run when those words are encountered. Logdog has been featured in magazines and deployed in production networks all over the world. It sorts features like no-delay message interception for low latency alerts, comprehensive logging and debugging, proper HUP signal handling, and regular expressions for complex pattern matching.

TextClock is a Perl CGI script which can be used to show browsers several variations of the current time and/or date. Server Side Includes is required.