Re: browser enhancement suggestion

Jeff Smith (sumisu@mingus.slab.ntt.jp)
Fri, 24 Mar 1995 21:12:38 +0500

>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.

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