last modified date on a remote computer file

[fishhead32]

Is there a way, in .asp or maybe .NET, to get the last modified date of a webpage on a remote computer so that you could display when another website is updated

[Ribeyed]

hi,
not sure if this possible. I don't know of any code that automatically retrieves this.
If i wanting to work with the last modified date I would have some code on the page that would write the date and time to a database and store it against that page. On the page If I was wanting to retrieve the last modified date and time then I would call it from the database.
Unless I had access to the database or even the code of the page on the remote computer then I see no way of retrieving this information.

Hope this helps you find an answer.

[elbootio]

This can be done using the XMLHTTPRequest object, use this code:

Set xmlhttp = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "GET", URL, False
xmlhttp.send ""
Response.Write xmlhttp.getResponseHeader("Last-Modified")

However, there is supposed to be a better way, that will download just the headers, but I have not been able to get this method to work. All you should have to do is change one variable:
xmlhttp.open "HEAD", URL, False
But every time I've tried to do this I get a timeout error, if anyone has some idea why this isn't working for me, please help.

[russell_g_1]

.net has a sort of equivalent class called webrequest and another called webresponse to do something similar.