Way to cache stacks from web and update when changes?

Edwin Gore edgore at shinra.com
Wed Aug 20 10:23:01 EDT 2003


Oddly enough Rob, just before I check my email I had added a "Check for updates" menu item to Amazon Assistant.

It doesn't *do* anything yet, but by the end of day I hope to have something working. I'll post then to let you know what I have learned.

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>From: "Rob Gould" <rgould8 at aol.com>
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>face="Helvetica,sans-serif">I'm trying to figure
>out a way to write an app that automatically
>updates itself from the
>web when it determines that a stack on the web-site
>changes.  Has
>anyone done this before?  <br>
><br>
>I was looking through the documentation, and I know
>that you can go to
>stacks that are online via:<br>
><br>
>go stack URL <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
><br>
>but is there a way to "pull down" such a stack, and
>somehow have Rev do
>a time/date stamp-check so that it only pulls down
>the stack if it's
>newer.  My goal is to make it so that the
>stack and substacks are all
>local on the user's hard-drive, and do not pull
>from the web unless I
>update the main stack or one of the substacks on
>the server.<br>
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