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Check your language appears on the langref.org site

Your language name should appear within the HTML found at the http://langreg.org main page.
python
from urllib import urlopen
print urlopen('http://langref.org').read().find('python') >= 0 and 'found' or 'not found'
ruby
Net::HTTP.start(URL, 80) do |http|
status = if http.get('/').body =~ /#{SRCHEXP}/ then "offers" else "does not offer" end
puts "http:\/\/#{URL} #{status} #{LANGUAGE}"
end
java
String url = "http://langref.org/", language = "java", line = null, regexp = ".*" + url + language + ".*";

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((new URL(url)).openStream()));
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null)
if (line.matches(regexp)) { System.out.printf("Language %s exists @ %s\n", language, url); break; }

in.close();
php
if (preg_match("/PHP/i", file_get_contents("http://langref.org/"))) {
echo "PHP appears on langref.org";
} else {
echo "PHP doesn't appear on langref.org";
}

Send an email

Use library functions, classes or objects to create a short email addressed to your own email address. The subject should be, "Greetings from langref.org", and the user should be prompted for the message body, and whether to cancel or proceed with sending the email.
python
import smtplib
import locale

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()

def main():
smtp_servername = "smtp.example.com"

from_addr = "ernie@example.com"
to_addr = "cookie.monster@mailinator.com"

body = raw_input("Enter the email message ")
if not raw_input("Send email? y/N ") in ["y", "Y"]:
print "aborting"
return

message = MIMEText(body, _charset=encoding)

message["From"] = from_addr
message["To"] = to_addr
message["Subject"] = "Greetings from langref.org"

server = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_servername)
server.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, message.as_string())


if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
ruby
require 'net/smtp'
require 'webrick/utils'

body = <<END_OF_MESSAGE
This is a message from langref.org
END_OF_MESSAGE

SMTPSRV = 'smtp.somewhere.com'
USER = 'me' ; DOMAIN = 'somewhere.com' ; FROM = USER + '@' + DOMAIN
TO = 'dest@somewhereelse.com'
SUBJECT = 'Greetings from langref.org'
DATE = Time.now.rfc2822()
MSGID = '<' + WEBrick::Utils.random_string(21) + '.' + WEBrick::Utils.random_string(21) + '@' + SMTPSRV + '>'

Net::SMTP.start(SMTPSRV, 25) do |smtp|
smtp.open_message_stream(FROM, [TO]) do |msg|
msg.puts "From: #{FROM}"
msg.puts "To: #{TO}"
msg.puts "Subject: #{SUBJECT}"
msg.puts "Date: #{DATE}"
msg.puts "Message-ID: #{MSGID}"
msg.puts
msg.puts body
end
end
java
// requires Java Mail API (mail.jar), which must be in classpath
try {
Properties props = System.getProperties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.sampledomain.com");
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress("gaylord.focker@hollywood.com"));
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse("father@family.com"));
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.CC, InternetAddress.parse("mother@family.com"));
msg.setSubject("subject");
msg.setText("message body");
msg.setHeader("X-Mailer", "jAVAmAILER");
msg.setSentDate(new Date());
Transport.send(msg);
} catch (AddressException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (MessagingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
php
/* This is a version without any prompt – use it for a website */
$to = "mail@domain.tld";
$subject = "Greetings from langref.org";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$headers = "From: sender@domain.tld\n"; // you can comment this out and delete it from below
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
echo "Success";
}

/****
* For some (security)reason I couldn't
* submit this without adding a space to
* the functionnames. Please remove it :)
* in this case, only "f write" and "f gets"
****/

$to = "mail@domain.tld";
f write(STDOUT, "Mail: ".$to."\n");
$subject = "Greetings from langref.org";
f write(STDOUT, "Subject: ".$subject."\n");
f write(STDOUT, "Please type the body. Use \\n for newlines: \n");
$body = trim(f gets(STDIN)); // we get input
if ($body == "") { // if empty input
$body = "Hi! How are you?";
f write(STDOUT, "Using standard body: ".$body."\n");
}
f write(STDOUT, "Would you like to send the mail? [y/n]: ");
if (trim(f gets(STDIN)) == "y") {
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
f write(STDOUT, "Success\n");
} else { // fallback
f write(STDOUT, "Failed to mail\n");
}
} else { // fallback
f write(STDOUT, "I'm sorry :(\n");
}