Translate please. I've not had my morning coffee yet.

It was asked before and *answered* before. At length. Apparently you just
didn't like the answers. This doesn't change them, however. The only way to
determine a chronological date of a webpage that is not under your direct
control (eg., your very own webpage that you created yourself) is if the
webpage creator puts something to that effect on the page such as a change
log or the like.

So I suppose you could say you previously asked "to no avail" but "and I
didn't get the answer I wanted to hear so I'm asking the same thing again"
more accurately depicts what you are doing.

Malke

That is something queried and answered with the HTTP. So you need
a program that uses this and lets you see the answers.

    For your ordinary web-browsers;

'Firefox' lets you see this via 'about:cache'

'Internet Explorer' lists this as one of the columns in the
'Temporary Internet Files' pseudo-directory.

'Opera', i'm not familiar with how to do it there.

Firstly, the date shown on a webpage is either fake or a waste of time. Some
sites generate the date on demand, so its always today or very recent. If
the date is genuine then all it shows is if the web page hasn't been updated
for a while. As a web developer it isn't something I ever put on a page.

Secondly, this isn't really an xp question, so it might have been better
asked in a webmaster newsgroup such as alt.www.webmaster.

As to whether you can determine the chronological date of a webpage this
depends on the type of page and I suppose in part on the web-server. If the
page is dynamically generated (so say a .asp, .aspx, .php, .pl etc) then
other than downloading the page and comparing it with a previous version I
don't think there is any way. If the page is static html (so .htm or .html)
then you can query the server for the age of the file. For example if you
use CryPing (free from http://www.cryer.co.uk/downloads/cryping/) then you
can view the heads returned for a page, so:

C:\>cryping -v -n 1 -http www.cryer.co.uk
CryPing - from www.cryer.co.uk v1.3 (build April 2008)
Pinging www.cryer.co.uk for http status:

Reply from www.cryer.co.uk: 200 OK time=67ms
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 10:46:07 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Debian)
Vary: Host
Last-Modified: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:40:40 GMT
ETag: "6ce6870-2350-4808eb28"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 9040
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

and the "Last-Modified" shows you when the page was last changed, in this
case in April of this year. However I don't know whether all servers return
"Last-Modified", and as I indicated above it probably won't be included for
dynamic pages or if it is then it won't be meaningful.

Even when there is a "Last-Modified" date from the web-server, the date is
the date of the file at the server and this is likely to be slightly more
recent than when the webmaster modified the page. The reason is that pages
are typically transferred to a webserver by FTP and FTP does not preserve
date stamps, it creates files with the datestamp that reflects when the file
was copied up. So if the webmaster is using an unintelligent FTP program and
simply copies everything up to the server then the date simply reflects when
the webmaster last pushed the upload button and not when the file was last
modified.

Hope this helps.