Linux Journal shows how to use Linux, Perl and other free software to check your web services. "To help with this identification process, I started to think about an application that would periodically perform a series of checks on URLs to alert us in case of problems. I'd previously found that the perfect language for me was Perl. I'd learned it writing some little CGI scripts, and I've enough confidence with it to prefer it to other languages."

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