Hope the sites have no banners :),  they change all the time

John Holmes wrote:

>You could cache/save the actual contents of the file, then when you read
>it next time, compare it to what you saved and see if it changed. You
>may want to filter out everything but what's between <body> and </body>,
>so you're not thinking it changed just b/c of something in the
>headers...
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>---John Holmes...
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vikram Vaswani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:04 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: [PHP] Finding out when a Web page has changed
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>>Hi all,
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>>I need to write an application that accepts a list of URLs and checks
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>>on a daily basis (via cron) to see if the pages have changed in the
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>past
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>>day.
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>>I need some help with this. Does anyone know the most optimal way to
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>find
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>>out when a particular Web page has been modified? I am thinking about
>>using
>>the Last-Modified: HTTP header - however, all servers do not return
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>>header - any ideas on what the fallback should be?
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>>TIA,
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>>Vikram
>>--
>>"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
>>                      --Darth Vader
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