A quick wget tip
A wget tip, or maybe not. I was working on a script today that had to do a submission of a very long parameter string to a cgi script, and it turned out to be too long for a get. So I went off and visited the wget manpages (man -M /usr/sfw/man wget). And here I noted the --post-data option which I hadn't been aware off before. A quick example is in order I think.
Lets say you are doing a submission to a url with a submission string of http://foo.com/cgi/myScript?really_long_set_of options, rather than doing