Re: FN-FORUM Email validation

date posted 15th January 2002 22:34

"technoir" [EMAIL REMOVED] writes:

> it will work something like this

What on earth has this to do with validating an email address?



>
> # Create a user agent object
> $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
> # Create a request
> my $tempurl;
> $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $tempurl;
> # Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
> $res = $ua->request($req);
>
> # Check the outcome of the response
> if ($res->is_success) {
> print "ok
";
> }
> else {
> print"bad link"
> }
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:03 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Email validation
>
>
> > "technoir" [EMAIL REMOVED] writes:
> >
> > > you can do it in perl
> > >
> > > use LWP module
> >
> > What does that buy you?
> >
> > Email::Valid to sanity check the domain then Net::DNS to validate the MX.
> >
> >
> >
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