Further to my previous post:
I have found a site (of which there are many) which enables you to monitor for changes to a web page.
It is here:
http://www.changedetection.com/
You provide the URL of the page you want to monitor for changes and it will send you an eMail whenever a change is detected.
I've set up two monitors:
One on the local paper's website. This is a test, since I know this site changes frequently. Sure enough I had an eMail this morning telling me it had changed and a link to a change log. So it does appear to work.
The other monitor is to the site containing the link to the current IVA pdf (
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg...type=RESOURCES). The name of the pdf is related to its version, so the hyper link to it will change when the IVA document is up issued, hence the page will change and (hopefully)
www.ChangeDetection.com will notify me of the change. Of course I will get notified of other changes on the page to, but I hope there will not be to many 'false alarms'.
Of course, the IVA manual does not change too often, so it might be a while untill this is proven to work. I'll report back if it does. Then we will have a mechanism of being notified immediately of IVA manual changes.
I really should have something better to do, shouldn't I?
