CHRONICLE-PING(1)

💖 chronicle-ping — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this is the chronicle-ping page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your manual, and it's giving "tiny script, big job" energy. she sends outgoing PING requests for new pages. that's it. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

chronicle-ping — send outgoing PING requests for new pages. fr fr that's the whole thing.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the menu, bestie. three little groups, all iconic:

  Help Options

    --help        Show a brief help overview.
    --version     Show the version of this script.

  Mandatory Options

    --url         The URL of the entry to ping.
    --service     The URL of the service to ping.

  Misc Options

    --name        The name of the blog.

🎀 Help Options 🎀

the "wait what does this even do" section, we love her:

• --help — shows you a brief help overview. quick lil rundown, no yapping.
• --version — shows you the version of this script. so you know which one you're dealing with 💅

👑 Mandatory Options 👑

not optional. not a suggestion. mandatory, periodt:

• --url — the URL of the entry to ping. the thing you're pinging about.
• --service — the URL of the service to ping. the thing you're pinging at.

🦋 Misc Options 🦋

the extras, the little sprinkles on top:

• --name — the name of the blog. your blog's name. her name. put some respect on it.

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💜 ABOUT 💜

so this script is designed to receive a URL as its argument, and then make an outgoing ping for it. that's the whole job. receive URL, ping, done. main character behaviour, honestly.

and here's the tea on how it decides where to ping: if a service URL is specified — and we're talking a URL that points to an XML-RPC end-point — then that's the one it uses. slay. but if you don't hand her a service URL? no worries bestie, she'll just make the ping to a number of default sites instead. she's got options, she's got backups, she's prepared 🌈

lowkey important: the "number of default sites" is doing a lot of work in that sentence — the manpage does not tell us which sites, so don't come for me, i'm just the messenger 😭

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🙈 AUTHOR 🙈

this one's by:

Steve
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http://www.steve.org.uk/

go say hi, i guess 💖

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⭐ LICENSE ⭐

Copyright (c) 2010 by Steve Kemp. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license. so like, read the LICENSE file, iykyk 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💅 this one's perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-05, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. go ping something iconic, love u, bye 🫶✨💖