how to find the date of last update on someone else's page

D

d.mears

Is there anyway to find what the date of last revision on someone
else's webpage is?

Thanks!
Diana
 
J

Jonathan N. Little

Is there anyway to find what the date of last revision on someone
else's webpage is?

Thanks!
Diana
In Netscape or Mozilla CTRL-I for document information, Firefox used the
hotkey for something else so 'Tools|Page Info' will get you there.

Can't find anything analogous in Opera or Konquer or MSIE
 
J

Jafar As-Sadiq Calley

Is there anyway to find what the date of last revision on someone
else's webpage is?

I don't know if you can. Anyway, I would consider it a courtesy to your
viewers to add a little "last updated" line somewhere on the homepage. I
do it myself :)
 
A

Alan J. Flavell

Is there anyway to find what the date of last revision on someone
else's webpage is?

Any HTTP server may report a last-modified date, which a client agent can
happily inform you about. (But see below for discussion of what it might
mean).

Here's a trivial example, courtesy of Chris Pederick's "web developer
toolbar" for Mozilla/Firefox (which I'd highly recommend to any user of
those browsers, whether or not they consider themselves to be "web
developers" as such):

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:44:47 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_jk2/2.0.2
Last-Modified: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:11:21 GMT
Etag: "47eb8-4ef0-4313b239"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 20208
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

200 OK

Note the "Last-Modified" line - but there are plenty of other ways of
seeing this, for example "lynx -head -dump ..." , or, I think, wget, and I
don't know what else. Even speaking HTTP nicely by hand to the server!

On the other hand, that date/time might or might not have been a
substantive change of the content - perhaps merely a technical update.
The only way to know whether the author thinks s/he made a substantive
change to the content, is if they make a practice of putting that
information onto the page itself. There's no purely technical alternative
to that, I'm afraid.

good luck
 
B

Blinky the Shark

Jonathan said:
In Netscape or Mozilla CTRL-I for document information, Firefox used the
hotkey for something else so 'Tools|Page Info' will get you there.

Can't find anything analogous in Opera or Konquer or MSIE

I'm surprised not to find this in Toby's Opera W3-Dev Menu add-in for
Opera. THIS IS NOT a product complaint -- it has a gajillion other
features. :) Maybe I'm just missing it.

Konq has a heading for it in Ctrl-I (View/DocumentInformation), but on a
page that shows a mod date with WebDev Extension nothing appears.
 
T

Toby Inkster

Blinky said:
I have the latest version for my release of Opera. Thanks, though.

Try version 2.0 anyway. It could work, it's just not tested. If it
doesn't, then just go back to the old version.
 
B

Blinky the Shark

Toby said:
Try version 2.0 anyway. It could work, it's just not tested. If it
doesn't, then just go back to the old version.

Just did.

Every page I've tested shows January 1, 1970. Can someone provide link
to a page that shows a mod date, so I can see if this has just been bad
luck in sampling or if the feature's borked by using it with an older
version of Opera? Thanks.
 
Q

Quasimido CSS

(e-mail address removed) in @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:
Is there anyway to find what the date of last revision on someone
else's webpage is?

though i find many bookmarklets do nothing, could try
http://www.google.com/search?q=date+last+|+revision+~bookmarklet

i didn't check these, but maybe one is good:

Bookmarklets - Help Section
.... if you use the "Page Freshness" bookmarklet (which gives the last modified
date of the document) then there may not be a single last modified date - the ...
www.bookmarklets.com/help/help.htm

Bookmarklets | add extra functionality to your browser with these ...
You just click the bookmarklet, and it can apply filters to the page you're ...
this bookmark will query the server and return the last modification date. ...
www.yourhtmlsource.com/accessibility/bookmarklets.html

wg:View Style Sheets Bookmarklet v2
The bookmarklet supports multiple stylesheets and various linkage types, ...
the http headers - you can see size, date last changed, content type and more. ...
web-graphics.com/mtarchive/000404.php
 

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