wwwupdate.pl

Description

wwwupdate.pl is a Perl script to verify the existence, nay, the modification of given web pages. It is meant to be run from the crontab or other periodic daemons, but can be run from the command line as well.

Requirements

Perl 5
LWP::UserAgent (included with later Perl versions)
Digest::MD5(also included in later versions of Perl, but downloadable from CPAN.
The "mkdir" command, for the first time the command is run (unless you plan on making the directory manually)

Instructions

Download the script, set it to executable (chmod +x) then invoke it on the command line with whatever sites you want to check if updated.

Example:

	wwwupdate.pl http://www.cerastes.org http://www.defcon.org www.cnn.com

The script will create the directory $HOME/.wwwupdate if it does not exist at the time of invocation, because it needs to store the downloaded files there. (This can be changed by editing the variable "$homedir" in the script.)

If a provided URL does not start with "http://", the script will assume that the URL is meant to be fetched via HTTP.

Download

version 0.1 - wwwupdate-0.1.pl

Any comments, suggestions should be thrown at cerastes (remove the crunchy peanut butter part)

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