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Re: browser enhancement suggestion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Smith)
Fri Mar 24 21:46:22 1995

Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 21:24:51 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: sumisu@mingus.slab.ntt.jp
From: Jeff Smith <sumisu@mingus.slab.ntt.jp>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>

>It occurred to me that a more general solution to all this would be if
>browsers implemented a cron-style auto-fetch functionality - where I could
>say "fetch this URL every day at 3pm and let me know if it changes". 

My quick repsonse would be - you could do this quite easily using a
line-mode browser.  I've been thinking of writing a script to do
this... it should be all that difficult.

js

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