hi Erik that was food for thought..content length may not work if substitutions leave length unchanged.. Will look into L distance ..thanks for the suggestion regards harry
> Content length (which you could also get using the HTTP header "Content > Length") won't necessarily tell you if content has changed. I think your > problem is a candidate > forhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance(calculating the > "distance" between two strings), for which I think there are Python > implementations. > > Depending on your requirements, you could add other heuristics to detect > major changes, e.g. load the page into an XML parser and only check certain > <div>'s. But further suggestions would require more information on your > problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
