Check for page change efficiently [was Re: Creating a blogrolling/link management system]

From: Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:42:54 +0000
Subject: Check for page change efficiently [was Re: Creating a blogrolling/link management system]
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newsgroups@meosource.com (Paul Van Schayck) wrote in news:Xns940ED22CFACB0newsgroupsmeosource@216.92.131.4: > First of all you need to check with the website you are going to check > if they really enjoy all bandwith required. And people will not see > their banners anymore. I'm not sure I understand-- I want to check to see if their page has changed once each day and, if so, I will highlight that link in my list... I doubt most web sites would have a problem with one hit per day :) I am not scraping and redisplaying content... My question boils down to the most efficient method to detect whether a page has been modified recently...

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