{"id":1121,"date":"2025-02-05T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/?page_id=1121"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:27:42","slug":"perl-example-code","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/software\/faxfinder\/perl-example-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Perl Example Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4> <strong>Overview<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>A very basic Perl code sample that will show how to send a fax to the Multitech Fax Finder device using Web Service API.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Prerequisites<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Download and Install Perl Active 5.10.0 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/activeperl\">http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/activeperl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Download the Perl sample source code SendFax-Perl.zip <a href=\"https:\/\/webfiles.multitech.com\/engineering\/sample-code\/fax-finder\/perl\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notes: The SendFax-Perl.zip contained two files:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sendfax.pl<\/li>\n<li>schedule.xml<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Modify schedule.xml<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Load the schedule.xml file into your favorite editor, find the section below, and modify the fax number to point to your recipient fax number:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n &lt;recipient&gt;<br \/>\n    ...<br \/>\n    &lt;fax_number&gt;<em><strong>5138<\/em><\/strong>&lt;\/fax_number&gt;<br \/>\n &lt;\/recipient&gt;<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Save it.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Modify sendfax.pl<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Load up the sendfax.pl file into your favorite editor. Change the following.<\/p>\n<p>Change the path to point to your Perl path.<\/p>\n<p><code><em><strong>#!\/perl\/bin\/perl <\/strong><\/em>-wT<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Change the user name and password.<\/p>\n<p><code>$request-&gt;authorization_basic(\"<em><strong>admin<\/strong><\/em>\",\"<em><strong>admin<\/strong><\/em>\");<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Change the IP address of the following line to point to your Fax Finder&#8217;s IP address.<\/p>\n<p><code>my $request = HTTP::Request-&gt;new(POST =&gt; 'http:\/\/<em><strong>216.133.69.247<\/strong><\/em>\/ffws\/v1\/ofax');<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Save it. Go to command prompt and cd to the folder where it contained the sendfax.pl file and type:<\/p>\n<p><code><em><strong>perl -T sendfax.pl<\/strong><\/em><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Now, if you web into your FaxFinder device and go to Status &amp; Log -&gt; Fax Status, you should be able to see the Fax Finder is sending out a fax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview A very basic Perl code sample that will show how to send a fax to the Multitech Fax Finder device using Web Service API. Prerequisites Download and Install Perl Active 5.10.0 at http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/activeperl Download the Perl sample source code SendFax-Perl.zip here Notes: The SendFax-Perl.zip contained two files: sendfax.pl schedule.xml Modify schedule.xml Load the schedule.xml [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1121\/revisions\/1636"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}