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Posted on 12-Sep-2004 19:46 GMT by Grzegorz Kraszewski15 comments
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SeventhSense, the ultimate website scanner has been updated with new features like HTTP proxy support, configurable numbers of threads and more. Many bugs have been fixed. Download from MorphZone. From the change log:

- BUGFIX: Fixed keyboard handling of GUI (missing MUIA_CycleChain here and there). Bug reported by Christian Rosentreter.

- BUGFIX: Version string was a bit malformed. Bug reported by Christian Rosentreter.

- FEATURE: Sites list autobackup. When the default sites list is saved, an old one is renamed to "sites.bak" first (old "sites.bak" is deleted). Feature suggested by Christian Rosentreter.

- BUGFIX: When a list is loaded into program, entries are checked for duplicated IDs. If duplicate ID is detected, user can skip duplicate or change ID. Bug reported by Grzegorz Murdzek.

- BUGFIX: When iconified SeventhSense displays now its own icon instead of default one.

- FEATURE: "Delete" function moved from toolbar to context menu.

- FEATURE: Checking can be stopped for every site separately with "Stop" option in the context menu.

- FEATURE: All check processes can be stopped at once with "Stop all" button.

- BUGFIX: SeventhSense could try to load a site in an endless loop in case of 40x HTTP response (but other than 404).

- FEATURE: User configurable number of simultaneously checked webpages.

- FEATURE: WWW proxy support.

- FEATURE: Option to automatically open an updated website in a browser. Feature suggested by Grzegorz Murdzek.

- BUGFIX: If there is no year in the date pattern, current year is assumed. Bug reported by Grzegorz Murdzek.

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Comment 1catohagen12-Sep-2004 18:33 GMT
Comment 2Grzegorz Kraszewski13-Sep-2004 05:14 GMT
Comment 3Grzegorz Kraszewski13-Sep-2004 08:07 GMT
Comment 4Marcus Sundman13-Sep-2004 16:52 GMT
Comment 5pab14-Sep-2004 04:11 GMT
Comment 6hooligan/dcsRegistered user14-Sep-2004 04:33 GMT
Comment 7stefkos14-Sep-2004 05:45 GMT
Comment 8Grzegorz Kraszewski14-Sep-2004 12:19 GMT
Comment 9Grzegorz Kraszewski14-Sep-2004 12:23 GMT
[MorphOS] SeventhSense updated : Comment 10 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Marcus Sundman on 14-Sep-2004 17:28 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Grzegorz Kraszewski):
> > Since SeventhSense (SS) is the "ultimate website scanner" it should be able to
> > do at least what other "normal" website update checking programs can, right?
>
> Right. What other "normal" website update checking programs do you mean?
> GuardAmy? Of course I mean programs running under MorphOS.

OK, I didn't think "ultimate website scanner" meant "best website scanner available on MOS".

> > So, can SS display the difference between two versions of a web page?
>
> Not yet.

It should. Displaying what has been updated is one of the most basic features there is for programs tracking website updates.

> > Can SS store the changes locally so that the user can retrieve a set of pages
> > from a particular point in time?
>
> Yes. All downloaded pages are stored as disk files.

OK, good. Is there a way to limit this, so that the database won't just keep getting bigger and bigger?

> > Can you specify exact patterns of what changes to look for and what changes
> > to ignore?
>
> SeventhSense is date-based. It scans webpage HTML code for dates. And of course
> date patterns are defined by user.

I don't see any sense in that. Why look for dates? Why not look for changes and then simply store the date and time the changes were seen?

> > Can SS track changes recursively (tracking new pages as they appear)?
>
> New pages as they appear where?

On the website you want to track, of course.
Let's take an example. Let's say there is this nice news site that has a front page with links to the actual stories, each of which is on a separate page. I want to tell my website tracking program to track the first page recursively with a recursion depth of 1 and without leaving the site. Now the program should see the new articles as they appear and store them etc. Also, if there are updates or corrections in older articles it should also see that.
OK, then let's say I change the recursion depth to 2. Now if articles refer to other pages on the same site the program will also start to track those. If I then specify that it may leave the site, too, then it will also track off-site pages linked to from the news articles.

Just make sure it's impossible to select both "may leave the site" and "infinite recursion depth", or else the program might start to download a very big part of the internet. :-)
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Comment 12Marcus Sundman14-Sep-2004 22:43 GMT
Comment 13Grzegorz Kraszewski15-Sep-2004 06:48 GMT
Comment 14Marcus Sundman15-Sep-2004 09:13 GMT
Comment 15Grzegorz Kraszewski15-Sep-2004 09:40 GMT
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