RE: Is there a way that I can tell if a web page on anotherweb site has changed.

Instead of storing the entire page, you could just compute a hash of the
page contents.

-Walden 


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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Kevin Touchette
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June, 2005 11:05
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Is there a way that I can tell if a web page on
anotherweb site has changed.

Hello,

I am using socket methods to make http requests to certain web sites
every hour and I want to alert a user if the web page on another site
changes.  Can anyone tell me an easy way to do this.  One thing I
thought of was to save the http results that the site sends me back in
two separate files and compare the two but I was hoping there is an
easier way.

Thank you.


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Kevin R. Touchette 
Washington Corporations 
Web and Application Development
E-mail:  KTouchette@xxxxxxxxxxxx