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

[Jeffrey Lee <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then you couldnt ignore parts, like time and date..

On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Walden H. Leverich wrote:

> Instead of storing the entire page, you could just compute a hash  
> of the
> page contents.
>
> -Walden
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Kevin Touchette
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 June, 2005 11:05
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> 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
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