WebWatcher Help



WebWatcher is an extremely useful small feature that can save you many hours of needless work.

You can configure WebWatcher to check various Web Pages for you, and let you know when they have changed - either by email, or by just playing a .wav file, and changing the color of the URL to let you know that it has been updated.

Getting Started
From the main Internet Adventurer window, click on the WebWatcher icon, and you get a list of URL's that are currently being checked periodically

Adding a new URL
To add a new URL, click with the right mouse button, and select "Add URL". Now, fill in the URL you want to check, and specify how often you want to check it. The default is 24 hours.

If you have defined a proxy in the settings notebook, you can except this URL from the proxy, so you can also check URLs which reside inside your firewall.

Deleting or editing an URL
To edit or delete an URL, select it and right-click to get the context-menu. Then select to edit or delete it.

You can force a check to occur, if you right-click it and select "Check for changes"

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
How does Internet Adventurer find out if the page has changed ?
IA retrieves the entire page (excluding any images) and calcuates a CRC checksum of the page, and stores it in it's database. If the CRC checksum changes in any way, the page is considered updated, and IA shows it with another color.

IA doesn't tell me if an image on a page has changed, why ?
IA only check the HTML code of the page itself, it does not load and check all images on a page, so if you want IA to check an image, you must add the URL for that specific image.

Does Internet Adventurer allow checking of FTP directories ?
Not at the moment, although this feature is planned. If you need this, let us know by emailing support@inetadv.net and let us know why you need it.



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