Hello,
On 28-Oct-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, add a little to what I sent before:
>
> keyword: "whatever" ; word to find on page
> delay: 00:10:00 ; amount of time to wait
> mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; your email address
> site: http://yoursite.com/yourpage.html ; site/page to check
>
> while[1] [
> wait delay
> page: read site
> if not find page word [send mail "Can't find page!"]
> ]
>
> Good luck! Of course, there is no error checking, etc in this simple
> version. But it should give you an idea of what's needed.
>
> R.
>
> ---
> At 02:21 PM 10/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> Russ thanks for the help. I am trying to make a script to check a site
>> every xx:xx minutes and see if a specific word on a page exists. if not
>> send me email... and do this forever...
I was just thinking about this, and it doesn't look to me like it
differentiates between the page and the site not being there ("page not
found" vs "cannot connect to server"). Would you want both or only one of
these cases reported?
Elliott
