<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>--Greg<br><br><br></div><div><br>On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Weston Ruter <<a href="mailto:westonruter@gmail.com">westonruter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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: <a href="http://files.morphgnt.org/tischendorf/" target="_blank"><a href="http://files.morphgnt.org/tischendorf/">http://files.morphgnt.org/tischendorf/</a></a><br>
<br>Weston<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Gregory Hellings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br>
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If that sort of information is not available in a structured way, then tracking updates to the upstream material can become far more difficult.<br>
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On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:37 AM, David Haslam <<a href="mailto:d.haslam@ukonline.co.uk" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:d.haslam@ukonline.co.uk">d.haslam@ukonline.co.uk</a></a>> wrote:<br>
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Do we have any system in place to monitor for changes the websites where our<br>
module source texts from from?<br>
e.g. When the text itself has been updated.<br>
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Or do we rely on ad hoc knowledge and reporting by interested volunteers?<br>
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David<br>
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