Re: notification in python

> You could also try looking at the HTTP headers for a request for e.g. "index.htm" using urllib. Specifically the "Expires" and "Last-Modified".
> Using headers values requires that you can trust the site on the header content. Web servers and caching proxies can do all sorts of things with the headers. Otherwise, saving the hash of the raw HTML (without GIFs etc.) as suggested is a good approach. Depending on what your definition of "updated" is.
>

thanks Erik,
By 'update' I meant a major addition/removal of text(say 100
characters).
Initially I thought of making hash of a page and comparing it to the
saved hash of the same page at a different moment of time..But ,this
would
cause even a tiny change to be considered as an update..I would like
to use a filter to set an update of x number of characters.
May be using f=urllib.urlopen and
currentsize=len(f.read()) will let me find the number of added/
removed characters..and set the filter accordingly..

any other suggestions most welcome
harry

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