Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Rick Funderburg as of Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:16:30AM -0700:
On 3/21/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Each day, I'm required to agree to the same Terms of Use. At least I
want to make sure that it is the same. So what I do each time is
highlight the entire text of it, open the editor, paste it, and save it
as fula. I wrote a simple bash script to compare the two files, and
another simple bash script to delete fula (so that the next time I tell
the editor to save as fula, it doesn't ask me "Are you nutz? Are you
*sure* you want to over write the one you already have?").
If the terms are always at the same url, you could automate the
process by using wget or curl in your script to get the file. You may
even be able to use the HTTP builtin modification detection mechanisms
instead of a diff (for example, see the curl -z flag), if that suits
your needs.
Of course, that defeats the purpose of examining the EULA that he was
presented with each time.
The appropriate solution, I think, would be to use a proxy or a plugin
that tracks specific data-elements against a reference file, and then
markup/hilight the deltas in the display to the user.
I understand what you said *just* enough to get the idea. But I have no
idea how to even find out how to implement such a thing.
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