Re: How current are web pages?

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True, many pages are set up that way, however, it will work on many which
have not been updated for some time. Not foolproof, but is a partial answer
to the original post.
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When the web page is up, try inserting this Javascript in the address
bar, "javascript:alert(document.lastModified)" (without the " ") It
should tell you the last date updated, for many sites. Try it for a few,
and let us know how it worked.


I'm not the OP but decided to try your suggestion. On several different
web sites where I tried your suggestion, your javascript returns the
current date and time. The datestamp will be for the copy rendered by the
browser, not for when the file for the page was last updated on the
*server*. The javascript is not running on the server. It is running
locally on your own host, and what it runs against is what got downloaded
to your host. The "document" being checked is the one that was just
rendered by the browser.

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