download html pages when change

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Fabio

Does anyone know a freeware sw to download an html page when it has been
changed/updated ?
Also only advice (without automatic download) is ok

Thanx in advance

Fabio
 
It was a dark and stormy night when Fabio said:
Does anyone know a freeware sw to download an html page when it
has been changed/updated ?

You can accomplish that using GNU Wget, just be aware it's a command
line tool:
<http://wget.sunsite.dk/>

The modifier you need to use is '-N', quoting wget's docs:

<Quote>
Time-Stamping

One of the most important aspects of mirroring information from the
Internet is updating your archives.

Downloading the whole archive again and again, just to replace a few
changed files is expensive, both in terms of wasted bandwidth and
money, and the time to do the update. This is why all the mirroring
tools offer the option of incremental updating.

Such an updating mechanism means that the remote server is scanned in
search of "new" files. Only those new files will be downloaded in the
place of the old ones.

A file is considered new if one of these two conditions are met:

1. A file of that name does not already exist locally.

2. A file of that name does exist, but the remote file was modified
more recently than the local file.

To implement this, the program needs to be aware of the time of last
modification of both local and remote files. We call this information
the "time-stamp" of a file.

The time-stamping in GNU Wget is turned on using --timestamping (-N)
option, or through timestamping = on directive in .wgetrc. With this
option, for each file it intends to download, Wget will check whether
a local file of the same name exists. If it does, and the remote file
is older, Wget will not download it.

If the local file does not exist, or the sizes of the files do not
match, Wget will download the remote file no matter what the time-
stamps say.
</Quote>

Hope this helps
 
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