Scripting a mirror test

[der.hans]

Am 31. Aug, 2007 schwätzte Kevin Faulkner so:

> What about curl?

It would work just fine as it satisfactorily fills the same need as wget.

ciao,

der.hans

> Jon M. Hanson wrote:
>> Joey Prestia wrote:
>>
>>> 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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