This is a good recommendation. Thanks :-).

> >   
> I modified a script to work with Trendmicro's product download page 
> before.  Essentially it downloads the webpage for the product, computes 
> an MD5 sum for the page and does a diff between the new and old if the 
> MD5 sum changes then mails an update to a mailing list.
> 
> The problem that cropped up is that the maintainer of the webpage keeps 
> changing minor stuffs like the date posted, formatting.... So I kept 
> getting spurious email notifications, and it was getting tiresome.  In 
> your case, you may also want to consider directly downloading the 
> server.ini from the product's activeupdate site, then grep and awk 
> it...  At least it's plain text....  And that what Trend products do to 
> check for updates.
> 
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