Utilities

Modules

9 Jun, 1999 - I've added a section of the site specifically for Perl modules (vice scripts). All free modules will be found there from now on.

perldoc2tree 1.0

18 Sep, 2000 - If you are a Perl developer, it is likely that you have a zillion Perl modules installed. 'perldoc' and 'man' are frequently not the easiest methods for browsing the POD documention - particularly for modules you are not intimately familiar with the modules already. It is also inconvienent to find out what documentation and modules are already included with Perl. My local solution was the creation of a script to take all installed POD documentation and convert it to a browsable HTML tree. That is what this script does.

FavIconTracker 1.0

18 Apr, 1999 - Microsoft has added a feature to their Internet Explorer 5 web browser that allows web sites to place icons for display with bookmarks. As a side-effect of this, hits are generated in the web server logs that can be analyzed to determine that a bookmark has been set and for what section of the site.

This script performs a fast analysis (in testing it was able to process a 55 megabyte access_log in 23 seconds) of those bookmarks and generates a report of what is being bookmarked, and how often and what is the most popularly bookmarked areas of a web site.

Triple Dot Cookies

23 Jan, 1999 - This is not a utility per se. It is a demonstration script of the 'triple dot cookie' vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape. Triple dot cookies can be used to completely by-pass the domain restrictions for cookies in those browsers. :(

BookMarker 1.0

31 May, 1998 - BookMarker is a Perl script which converts Netscape bookmark files into a Yahoo-like tree of web pages. This allows you to use your web browser as a link manager for your links.

HTMLThumbnail 1.1.4

11 May, 1998 - HTMLThumbnail is a Perl script that generates 'Thumbnail sheets' for GIF and JPG images. Feature laden and the thumbnails are typically 1-2% of the byte count of the originals. (Requires some additional utilities you can get for free on the net - pointers provided).

13 July, 2000 - Version 1.1.4 adds support for PNG graphics.

FTPWebLog 1.0.2

I am releasing my FTPWebLog 1.0.2 software. This is a powerful WWW and FTP log analysis program that includes support for graphic reports. Check it out.

Usenet Web 1.0.2

A set of routines for archiving and presenting Usenet Newsgroups on the World Wide Web.

BrowserCounter 1.2

A simple script for analyzing the agent_log from Apache or any combined format access_log and determining what types of web browsers are visiting a web site.

RefStats 1.2

A simple script for analyzing the referer_log from Apache or any standard ECLF ("Combined") format access_log to find referring URLs and broken links.

CookieStats 1.0

A simple script for analyzing the cookie_log from Apache to determine a lower bound sessions count.

AccountStats 1.0

A basic script for extracting AuthUser activity summaries from Common and Combined format access_logs.