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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use diagnostics;
+use Carp;
+#use Time::HiRes;
+# wow, this would have been cool but ... nope
+use Archive::Har();
+use Try::Tiny;
+use Getopt::Long;
+use utf8;
+require JSON;
+require JSON::XS;
+#use JSON::XS;
+use Data::Dumper;
+$SIG{ __DIE__ } = sub { Carp::confess( @_ ) };
+$SIG{ __WARN__ } = sub { Carp::confess( @_ ) };
+#use constant NA => "NA";
+use constant NL => "\n";
+#use constant Q => '"';
+#use constant q => "'";
+#use constant nbsp => " ";
+$| = 1;
+
+package main;
+
+my $usage = qq($0 --har {file.jar} # HAR file saved from browser
+  --out {bot.pm}      # portal bot module to create
+  --help|-h           # this
+  );
+our $quiet = 1;
+our $help = 0;
+our $outfile;
+our $harfile;
+
+GetOptions (
+   'quiet|q:s'          => \$quiet,
+   'help|h'             => \$help,
+   'har=s'              => \$::harfile,
+   'out|o=s'            => \$::outfile,
+) || (print($usage) && exit(1));
+
+if ($help) {
+  print($usage);
+  exit(0);
+}
+
+if (!(defined $::harfile) || !(defined $::outfile)) {
+  print $usage;
+  exit(1);
+}
+
+die("unable to open $::harfile: $!")  unless open(my $fh, "<", $::harfile); 
+read $fh, my $har_txt, -s $fh; # should yank that into LANforge::Utils
+close $fh;
+our $Decoder = JSON->new->utf8;
+#print "** $har_txt".NL;
+
+
+## ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
+##  Creating an Archive::HAR is not very efficient
+## ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
+#$::harfile = Archive::Har->new();
+#$::harfile->string($har_txt);
+#print Dumper($::harfile);
+#foreach my $log_entry ($::harfile->entries()) {
+#  print "Log Entry: ".$log_entry->pageref() .NL if ($log_entry->pageref());
+#  print "DT: ".$log_entry->started_date_time() .NL if ($log_entry->started_date_time());
+#  #print "Request: ".Dumper($log_entry->request()) .NL;
+#  print "Request Url:".$log_entry->request()->{url} .NL;
+#  my $headers = $log_entry->request()->{headers};
+#  foreach my $header (@$headers) {
+#    print "Header: ".$header->{name} .NL;
+#  }
+#  #print "Response: ".Dumper($log_entry->response()) .NL;
+#  #print "Server: ".$log_entry->server_ip_address() .NL;
+#}
+
+## ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
+##  Creating a plain JSON object is more efficient, 
+##  and more compatible with FF
+## ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
+my $json = $::Decoder->decode($har_txt);
+$::Decoder->canonical(1);
+$::Decoder->allow_blessed(1);
+#print Dumper(\$json);
+
+my %ordered_entries = ();
+print "I see ".(length($json->{log}->{entries}))." entries\n";
+
+foreach my $entry (@{$json->{log}->{entries}}) {
+  my $request_start = $entry->{startedDateTime};
+  $ordered_entries{$request_start} = \$entry;
+  #print Dumper(\$entry);
+  #print "------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n";
+}
+print "------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n";
+print "------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n";
+print "------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n";
+print "------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n";
+for my $request_start ( sort keys %ordered_entries ) {
+  print "Start: $request_start\n";
+  my $entry = $ordered_entries{$request_start};
+  #print Dumper($entry);
+  #print "REF: ".ref($entry);
+  my $request = $$entry->{request};
+  print Dumper($request);
+  my $ra_headers = $request->{headers}; 
+  
+  my $url = $request->{url};
+  print "URL: $url\n";
+  for my $header_e (@$ra_headers) {
+    print "H: ".$header_e->{name} .": ".$header_e->{value} .NL;
+  }
+  last;
+}
+
+#die("unable to open $::outfile: $!")  unless open($fh, ">", $::outfile);
+  # create find_redirect_url()
+  
+  # create submit_login()
+  
+  # create interpret_login_response()
+  
+  # create submit_logout()
+close $fh;
+###
+###
+###
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