in reply to Dylan - For the sites they are a-changin'

Why doesn't HEAD work? Why doesn't the headers contain the document's change time? I was under the impression that it should.

The date is in a HTTP header that is automatically created by the webserver for static pages. However, when you use a script to output a dynamic web page, you explicitly need to set the header yourself. I guess most blog scripts forget to do that.

Note that in this case you are actually polling a blog that in a recent entry proposes a protocol that abolishes polling :).

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Re: Re: Dylan - For the sites they are a-changin'
by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Apr 24, 2003 at 17:55 UTC
    Note that in this case you are actually polling a blog that in a recent entry proposes a protocol that abolishes polling :).

    Yes, I know :)

    But I'm not religious on the topic of polling and only did it to get the work done, not to save the world and invent a new protocol. I leave that to others :)

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