[WebSec-users] WebSec 1.7.0 and small web pages

[Michael Clark]

Hi all,

I am using WebSecretary to monitor the web sites I run to make sure I 
haven't been hacked, I didn't upload the wrong page, etc.... So I 
have two servers, each running Websec, and monitoring the web sites 
on both servers. A side effect of this is when the server goes down, 
I get a notification that each web site is down (or at least 
changed). So when I see a LOT of WebSec messages coming into ym 
mailbox, I know something BAD is happening.

I'd like to have WebSec page me whenever the web server goes down. So 
I created a text only page  at http://www.neted.org/serverstatus.html 
. The first time I run websec, I get the standard email messages. 
Full output is:

> Web Secretary Ver 1.7.0
> By Chew Wei Yih Copyleft (c) 1998
>
> Processing => http://www.neted.org/serverstatus.html (Internet 
> Education Foundation) ...

When I run it again, I get the exact same message. I do not get the 
normal messages like "Highlighting differences from previous version 
of webpage ...
No changes were detected."

What is the bare minimum I need to include on a web page so that 
WebSec can monitor it? My pager will only accept a few hundred 
characters, and I'd like to avoid getting HTML on it. Ideally I'd 
like to monitor a page like http://www.neted.org/serverstatus.txt 
(text-only) . Thanks for any ideas, Mike



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