NAME

WWW::Page::Modified - reports when a page was last modified

SYNOPSIS

    use WWW::Page::Modified;
    my $dm = WWW::Page::Modified->new;
    print $dm->get_modified('http://www.apple.com/');

DESCRIPTION

The WWW::Page::Modified module attempts to determine when a web page was last modified. It does this by examining the HTTP headers, HTML headers and the body of the HTML document.

It will make use of Date::Manip so it is not necessarily the quickest of cats.

METHODS

WWW::Page::Modified->new()

Creates a new date modified checking object.

$dm->get_modified($url)

Returns the date modified or 0. $url can either be an <HTTP::Response> object, a URI object or just a string URL.

AUTHOR

Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org> http://eh.org/~koschei/

Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to either the mailing list at <perl-www@dellah.anu.edu.au> (email <perl-www-subscribe@dellah.anu.edu.au> to subscribe) or directly to the author at <spoon@cpan.org>

PLANS

It needs to cater for more weird and unusual ways of putting dates on web pages.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001 Iain Truskett. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

    $Id: Modified.pm,v 1.2 2002/02/03 13:10:01 koschei Exp $

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank GRF for having me write this.

SEE ALSO

Um.