This is a CGI script that tries to Do The Right Thing with whatever input you give it.
I made it mainly for my own use (for example, I use it on my start page), but others might find it useful as well.
torrent: handler
mid: handler
deb: handler
define: word lookups
fogo: handler
weather:,
acronym:, cpan:, mp3:
handlers; updated perl: .Last updated $Date: 2011/04/16 20:04:25 $
If you enter something that looks like a URI, it goes to that URI.
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If you enter a number, it goes to that RFC on ietf.org.
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If you enter "draft-foo-...", it goes to that internet draft on ietf.org.
(sample)
If you enter (part of) a newsgroup name, it shows you the FAQs
for that group/hierarchy.
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If you enter "hwg: /some/path", it goes to that path on hwg.org.
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If you enter "vs: http://some/url", it validates that URL using the W3C Validation Service.
(sample)
If you enter "define: word", it looks up that word in the dictionary.
(sample)
If you enter "jargon: word or words", it looks up that word/phrase in
the Jargon File.
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If you enter "movie: movie title" it looks up that movie in The Internet Movie Database.
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If you enter "actor: actor/actress name" it looks up that actor/actress in The Internet Movie Database.
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If you enter "perl: keyword/function" it looks up that keyword/function in The Perl
Documentation.
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If you enter "cpan: module name or keywords" it does a search
of CPAN for that module.
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If you enter "book: book title/author" it looks up that title/author in amazon.com's database.
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If you enter "cd: CD title/artist" it looks up that title/artist in amazon.com's database.
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If you enter "stock: symbol" it looks up that stock symbol in Yahoo! Finance.
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If you enter "html: element" it looks up that HTML element in the HTML 4.0 spec.
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If you enter "boston: business/event" it looks up that
business/event in boston.sidewalk.com.
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If you enter "php: function" it looks up that PHP function in the manual.
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If you enter "acronym: acronym" it looks up that acronym in the acronym
database.
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If you enter "weather: city" it looks up the weather for that
city in Yahoo! Weather.
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If you enter "mp3: song or artist name" it searches for that
MP3 using oth.net.
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If you enter "torrent: song/artist/movie/warez name" it searches for
those warez using some torrent search site du jour.
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If you enter "w3t: name/email" it looks up that person's
contact info in the w3t-internal phonelist.
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If you enter "fogo: search text" it looks up that text
in the fogo
mailing list archives.
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If you enter "deb: package name" it looks for packages matching that string
in the Debian
GNU/Linux Packages.
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If you enter "mid:some-message-id" or "something@w3.org" it looks up that
message-id in W3C's mailing list
archives
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If you enter "altavista: search text" it looks up that text
in AltaVista.
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Otherwise (if none of the above things apply), it does a Web search using google.com.
(sample)
<form action="http://impressive.net/services/dtrt/dtrt">
<input name=text>
</form>
Put that on a Web page somewhere, then type stuff into it.
map: handler
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