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/* For Node.js - deal with some of the boilerplate involved in HTTP GET requests */

var http = require('http'),
    urlmod = require('url');

function getResponse(url, callback) {
    var parsed = urlmod.parse(url);
    var port = parseInt(parsed.port || '80', 10);
    var client = http.createClient(port, parsed.hostname);
    var path = parsed.pathname;

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/* For Node.js - resolve a chain of HTTP redirects
   Uses getResponse() from http://gist.github.com/399276
   Example: resolveHttpRedirects('http://ow.ly/1Kn4j', function(url) { sys.puts(url) });
*/

function resolveHttpRedirects(url, callback, maxnum) {
    maxnum = maxnum || 3;
    var count = 0;
    function next(url) {
        getResponse(url, function(response) {

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import django
from django.template import Template, Context

template_string = """
The answer to the Ultimate
Question is {{ everything.universe.answer }}.

Among our weapons are: 
  {% for weapon in weapons %}
    {{ weapon }}

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/**
 * Smokescreen v0.1.2 - Chris Smoak <chris.smoak@gmail.com>
 * A Flash player written in JavaScript.
 *
 * Copyright 2010, RevShock
 *
 * Date: 2010-05-27
 */
var Smokescreen = function(url, element, width, height, name, params) {
    goog = {};

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/* Multiget web service, written in Node
   
   http://127.0.0.1:9001/?urls=http://example.com/,http://example.net/
   
   Will fetch all URLs in parallel, then return a JSON response containing 
   the fetched content from them.
*/

var DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 10000;

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/* Evil script for exporting LinkedIn contacts along with their locations.
   Navigate to http://www.linkedin.com/connections?trk=hb_tab_cnts and 
   click on the "Locations" accordion button, then paste the following 
   script in to the Google Chrome JavaScript console (untested in anything
   else). After quite a while a popup with some JSON will appear. */

function fakeClick(el) {
    var e = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
    e.initEvent('click', true, true);
    el.dispatchEvent(e);

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import httplib, urlparse, socket

def http_get_headers_and_truncated_body(
        url, max_redirects=5, body_length=2048, timeout=5,
        allowed_content_types = ('text/html',), num_redirects_followed=0,
        redirect_chain = None
    ):
    redirect_chain = redirect_chain or []
    # Returns {'ok':True,'headers':{},'redirected':False,'url':'','body': '',
    #    'max_redirects_reached': False, 'num_redirects_followed': 0,

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wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/r/redis/redis-server_2.0.0~rc2-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i redis-server_2.0.0~rc2-1_i386.deb

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"""
Here's how to run a command from Python piping a string in to stdin and reading the 
output back in to another string. It took me way too long to work this out.
"""

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

output = Popen(
    ['java', '-jar', 'yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar', '--type=css'], 
    stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE

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/* Inspired by Python's useful re.findall method */

function findall(regex, str) {
	var matches = [], m;
	regex.lastIndex = 0;
	while (m = regex.exec(str, regex.lastIndex)) {
		matches[matches.length] = m;
	}
	return matches;
}