How would I do this in Python 1 1

[Charles Steinkuehler]

> Ok, I decided to follow the yellow brick road and now have a copy of
Python
> 2.?? (something) on my NT box.   I was trying a little example that
> requested a web page.  That worked great.  Now I have a little "hmm how
> would that work" project in mind . . . how would I get the last updated
> date/time from a web page?   I know it's gotta be there somewhere, because
> Netscape will show it most of the time.   I realize it's not going to be
> valid on dynamic pages, but that's not the purpose for my little
experiment.
>
> If anyone has suggestions/ideas please let me know.  Thanks!

Last-modified date/time is typically returned as a header (Last-modified:
...) by the web server.  You can even get this information (if available)
w/o downloading the whole web page using the "HEAD" rather than "GET"
command.

Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net