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Feature request: monitoring other type of resource than web pages
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mountains |
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Feature request: monitoring other type of resource than web pages |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:48:44 +0200 |
Firstly I’d like to thank you Baruch and all people from community for
developing Web Secretary. That’s very good and useful software.
My feature request is that Web Secretary can monitor other type of resource
than simply web pages like other text or binary files. For example, when I put
into URL parameter some binary file, mayby PDF of archive file, Web Secretary
simply download this file and treat it like text file showing differences in
text mode, but result of this action is senseless. It will be great if Web
Secretary just inform me that this file was change, and I on my own will check
for differeces
Mayby this could be done if Web Secretary automatically recognize type of
resource. So if resoruce is web page in (X)HTML, then Web Secretary work so
far. If resource isn’t web page, but it is text file, Web Secretary compare
text file without skiping (X)HTML tags. And if resoruce is binary file, Web
Secretary simply check for timestamp and/or size of this file. If Web Secretary
can’t automatically recognize type of resource the additional parameter will be
solution.
It should be emphasized, that this is my reflections on how Web Secretary could
realize this feature and maybe exist better technical solution, but I think in
and of itself this feature is useful, becouse we have many type of file that
contain information, but not everything is store in web page format.
I'm not Perl programmer and IT specialist, so in concern for the quality of
code I can't provide patch.
Thanks and regards.
- Feature request: monitoring other type of resource than web pages,
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