Re: Web Page Watcher

[Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I have considered it now and it would be fairly easy to accomplish. 
I am not sure it would be valuable though. There is a significant amount 
of data in the headers that is different every time the page is called. 
Are there particular fields that are only updated when the content of 
the page has changed? Or were you looking for something else completely?

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Web Page Watcher
From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10/07/2006 09:55 PM

> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:35 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > For anyone who is interested, the script will watch any number of
> > pages and will report via email if it changes. It is run via cron on
> > whatever period you wish. Daily is probably often enough. It has two
> > modes of watching. The first simply compares the page you are seeing
> > now with the one you saw the last time you looked. The second method
> > only compares the links within the page. 
>
> Have you considered just comparing HTTP headers?
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