Fraser Farrell wrote:
>
> I would also like to have a program that does this chore. One possibility
> would be to Ping a user-defined list of URLs and listen for replies. This
> should be relatively easy to do, compared to FTP, email or whatever.
>
> Although Ping won't tell you about changes in content, it would tell you
> if the site still exists. But does a Ping test try the specific URL,
> or just the server it resides on?
You could use the http-get software that comes with UKA_PPP to
d/l the index page. Then the program can look for the bookmark title
in the loaded page and see if it compares. It can also look for
specific notes such as "404 file not found" or dead servers using
the Ping command before attempting to get the Index.
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