From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39750BC48 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:12:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2H6Cd8j002427 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:12:39 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA11405 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:12:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from saul.cis.upenn.edu (SAUL.CIS.upenn.edu [158.130.12.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2H6CbnG025748 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:12:39 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saul.cis.upenn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j2H6CZCP016551; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:12:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:12:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20050317.011235.68549333.eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp> To: caml-list@inria.fr Cc: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu Subject: a tiny ocaml/ocurl program for frequent flyers (on United Airlines) From: Eijiro Sumii X-Mailer: Mew version 3.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42391FD7.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42391FD5.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 eijiro:01 sumii:01 eijiro:01 sumii:01 ocaml:01 upenn:01 upenn:01 flyers:98 airlines:98 airline:98 winning:98 flyers:98 guess:02 anet:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Hi again, I've written a simple OCaml script (using OCurl) that detects seat/schedule changes of your flights on one particular airline (guess which:-). http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sumii/united/ In case anybody (other than myself) uses this program, please let me know whether it works - it is a little hard to test because it requires real reservations and changes! (It worked for me at least a few times in the last several months.) If you don't understand why such a thing is useful, either (A) you don't fly much, (B) you are _so_ patient that you don't feel much pain when sitting in a non-bulkhead economy-class seat for 14 hours, (C) you are rich enough to fly in business/first class without winning the waitlisting competitions for free upgrades, or (D) you haven't yet discovered the crazy world of frequent flyers.;-) In the last case, you would have some fun by taking a look at http://www.seatguru.com/ and http://www.flyertalk.com/ for example. -- Eijiro Sumii (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sumii/) Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania