Retrieving date/time from a webpage

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Hi all

What ways are there of returning the date and time that a webpage was last modified or created, please?

TIA

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[ChrisHunt]

In what language?

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Chris

Thanks for responding.

The WinAPI call FtpGetFileSize() will, as its name implies, return the size of a webpage.

Am looking to see what alternatives there may be.

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Apologies

Am looking to see what alternatives there may be

should be:-


Am looking to see what alternatives there may be to retrieve time and date, preferably from the webpage itself.

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[ChrisHirst]

well there is javascript, asp, php, perl, coldfusion ... and so on.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Chris,

There is no way to do this with HTML alone. As Chris points out, you will have to use another language.

Dan


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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Chris and Dan

Have googled unsuccessfully for a Javascript solution, so will now end this thread and repost in the Javascript forum.

Thanks for your input.

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[ChrisHirst]

that'll be document.lastModifed then

Chris.

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[tsdragon]

If you can use Server Side Includes in your pages and your server supports this tag, you can get the date/time an HTML page was last modified with one of these:

<!--#fsize virtual="[i]filename[/i]" --> 
<!--#fsize file="[i]filename[/i]" -->

If you need to get it into a javascript routine, just put that into a div or span and use the innerText property to get it out again.

Server Side Inludes Reference

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Tracy

Appreciate your suggestion but have gone with solution in thread216-1049114 as can utilise the IE object to good effect for other purposes.

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