[LUNI] Accessing a WebService or Servlet via Unix scripts...

[Steve Pribyl]

curl is your friend.

Command line web fetcher.

Steve
> anyone know of a utility or way of making a call to a WebService or
> Java Servlet directly from the *nix cli?
>
> we're using a third party application that has no API or real way of
> communicating with anything else going on in the system.  however it
> can call out to (apparently) any Unix script.  initial thought was to
> have the script execute a small Java application that sends messages
> and then garbage collects; but, it would be much nicer to make a call
> to a centralized service.
>
> any thoughts?
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