[Hotauth]
The Hotwire Authentication Script
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This is the Open source Hotwire authentication script in perl. It uses screen scraping to automatically login the user without accessing the login web-page.
Introduction
This client has been developed to fill the gap left after Hotwire India changed their authentication methods. Earlier, they would provide an application (Yes, there were open-source alternatives :-) ) using which we could login. Now they have gone to a web based authentication system, making the earlier application redundant. It is very irritating to open the webpage and then authenticate when the the connection is broken, hence this client was born.
At my internship at Tekriti Software, most of the work i did was scripting, on getting a bit of screen scraping experience in perl It became obvious that a client could be developed in Perl. In about a day's work the client was ready. The primary issue to its usage is that its not easy to install the application, you need to be a power user (hmm drop a mail , if you are in Delhi we could meet up) to get it running. Going through the rest of the site should be helpful enough to get this application running.
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News
10th November
The website was launched, and the client is ready to be developed at full speed.
5th November
The first release "zero" , a perl- based authentication client was released. The UI has been written in the Prima UI toolkit.
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Progress
The basic features has been incorporated into the application, the next step is to make an installer, so that all the necessary packages will be installed together.
Another idea is to develop a C++/Java application which will remove the perl dependence.
Additional information:Keep coming back for more updates :-)
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