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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
Comment 10Marcus Sundman14-Sep-2004 17:28 GMT
[MorphOS] SeventhSense updated : Comment 11 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Grzegorz Kraszewski on 14-Sep-2004 19:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Marcus Sundman):
OK, I didn't think "ultimate website scanner" meant "best website scanner available on MOS".

Well, ANN is concentrated on Amiga and Amiga-like operating systems. I think SeventhSense is the best scanner for these.

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

SeventhSense is mainly designed for checking portals for news items. That is why scanning dates and odrinal numbers [of news items] is more important to me than diffing the whole HTML code. Also that is why I plan to add a simple RSS reader. Of course diffing will be implemented some day, but is not on top of todo list.

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

Hard disks are big nowadays. SeventhSense stores HTML code only, so I don't think it is a problem. But if users demand the feature, why not. BTW you are using (or have tested at least) SeventhSense?

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?

Well, just diffing causes many "false alarms", when a webmaster, or editor just adds missing comma, or fixes page layout. And no, adding difference threshold does not help much. I used GuardAmy (it does diffing) and was disappointed with this. That is why SeventhSense bases on date scanning (it also checks for "Last-Modified" field in HTTP header if present, can be disabled for some sites returning date of request there).

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,

Then these stories have dates with them, or at least ordinal numbers in links (most of news sites use scripting and database). And if such a site has neither dates nor ordinal numbers, it is probably hand-edited and header date can be used. Automatic adding of sub-pages makes little sense here, as the database gets populated with useless rubbish, checking it is just wasting bandwidth (some people, like me for example, still have to use analog modem dial-up). It is very unlikely I implement such a feature in SeventhSense. If you want to mirror a website just use wget.
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Comment 15Grzegorz Kraszewski15-Sep-2004 09:40 GMT
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