[lug] OT: Perl CGI /PHP Programming Consulting Job

[George Sexton]

I'm looking for someone to write a Perl/CGI program for me on a 
consulting basis. If you could also create a PHP implementation, that 
would be good. The specs are:

CGI Program accepts a URL as an argument. Reads the URL, and returns the 
data to the caller unmodified. IOW, a simple proxy.

Proxied Request should include accept-language header from caller. Proxy 
should set the referrer to the same value as the source request. Proxy 
must correctly handle result data in UTF-8 format.

Proxy should verify that the host name for the proxied request is in the 
same domain. I.E. if the proxy URL is www.example.com, the proxied URL 
must be in example.com.

Proxy should verify that one of two URL patterns is matched for the 
request. If the request does not match one of two patterns, then an 
intelligible error should be returned.

Optional - Quote Feature Separately

Proxy should cache the returned value and if a user configurable amount 
of time has not passed, the cached value would be returned. One method 
would be to use a hash of the URL as a cache file name, and check the 
time-stamp of the cache file.

for PHP, associative arrays cached at the application level would be good.

If you're interested, please contact me off-list with a quote.



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George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
Voice: +1 303 438 9585
URL:   http://www.mhsoftware.com/