I need to determine when a webpage that I'm browsing to was last updated.

Hello,

I need to determine when a webpage that I'm browsing to was last updated.
Is there a utility that can give me this information? It's not a very
popular website, just that of my high school alma matter. I'm using FireFox
2.x

Thanks,

Jeff

Jeff Ingram wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to determine when a webpage that I'm browsing to was last
> updated. Is there a utility that can give me this information? It's not
> a very popular website, just that of my high school alma matter. I'm
> using FireFox 2.x
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff


There is no obvious way of doing this, since the date of modification
does not need to be stored.

You could do it by periodically checking the web page and creating a
'checksum' of the pages contents. If the page changes, even by a single
character, the checksum would change.

This would take me only a few minutes on a UNIX/Linux computer, using
the utilities 'wget' (to download) and 'md5sum' (to generate a checksum)
and a little script to do it.

I would not know how to do it in vista, but i suspect it could be done
the same way.