[sword-devel] Watching websites where our source texts come from?

[Gregory Hellings]

It's also not always reliable and not always available from systems. I  
have known administrator to mess with settings to always set that to  
the current time for dynamic content, etc. But it could give a hint  
that a person ought to check it out if no other mechanism is available.

--Greg



On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Weston Ruter <westonruter at gmail.com> wrote:

> If a feed isn't available, you could also simply use the HTTP Last- 
> Modified header (and/or Etag) to check if the source file has  
> changed. This doesn't help, though, if new editions are released as  
> separate files, like Tischendorf: http://files.morphgnt.org/tischendorf/
>
> Weston
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Gregory Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> If the websites have some sort of syndicated feed, like RSS or Atom  
> or the like, it would be easy to write a basic script to pull the  
> latest info from that. Likewise if there is regular version  
> information in a web-accessible version of the file as well as the  
> module's config file on the lines of SourceVersion=1.7.6 or  
> SourceDate=1999-10-06 or something like that.
>
> If that sort of information is not available in a structured way,  
> then tracking updates to the upstream material can become far more  
> difficult.
>
> --Greg
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:37 AM, David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>  
> wrote:
>
>
> Do we have any system in place to monitor for changes the websites  
> where our
> module source texts from from?
> e.g. When the text itself has been updated.
>
> Or do we rely on ad hoc knowledge and reporting by interested  
> volunteers?
>
> David
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