Scripting a mirror test

[Kevin Faulkner]

What about curl?

Jon M. Hanson wrote:
> Joey Prestia wrote:
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>> Problem: I need to come up a script that I can use to test if between 30 
>> to 50 mirrors are carrying the content of a particular page in its 
>> unchanged form. I would guess to create a script with maybe a for loop 
>> and a file with the web addresses of these mirrors and run a diff on the 
>> pages then send any errors to me so if the site is failing to maintain 
>> its content I can be notified. I am still quite new to this but am sure 
>> it can be done with a script that I could run as a cron job instead of 
>> manually testing each of the pages several times a week. Any suggestions 
>> on how I could load the site content to do this and what commands would 
>> be best suited?
>> Thanks Joey
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> wget is a command-line interface for web pages. You could use that to
> download the web pages into a file and then do something like diff,
> md5sum, sha1sum, etc. to see if they are the same.
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