Most services of this nature simply look at the file size of the page being
requested on the webhost without actually reviewing the content.
The best services of this nature allow the user to specify keywords to be
found in the document off the webhost. This is nice cause it notifies the
user when his site may have been hacked and some other content being
displayed, rather than just letting him know when the service is
down. This could be attempted in CFhttp, providing the host isn't
incompatible with the tag.
My personal recommendation would be not to recreate the wheel, and use
someone else's service.
At 11:04 AM 3/15/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>I have a rather interesting task that has been set in front of me. We would
>like to setup a service on our web site for users to enter in a URL address
>to monitor it for changes..
>
>Now I know there are a few web services out there that do this for free but
>I think that using them would possible do more harm than good.. and they
>only way I could think of getting this to work is to setup forms on our end
>that will submit the information to the web site.. and if they change our
>forms then our site would break..
>
>Does anyone know of a product that works with Cold Fusion that's for sale..
>or.
>
>Knowing the problems with CFHTTP would it be possible to write something
>like this and even
>store the values in a databse and make a comparrison on them..
>
>
>Thanks for your time..
>
>Mallory Woods
>
>
>
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