How to check for file exists at another web site.

[Historical Forums User]

I have a set of add-ins that are often updated by the originator, but unless they send out a notification I dont know there is an update.
they do keep all the most current ‘versions’ in a single directory at another site. How can I check that directory to see if the version I have is the same as the version they have?

I might have /files/mods/change_picture_style_ver_5.2.txt

But the site has
/user_mods/newest_versions/change_picture_style_ver_5.5.txt

Hopefully there is an easy way that I can review 20-30 of my files to see if each is “up-to-date”.

Thanks in advance for any help.
J

[Historical Forums User]

I would assume the files are, because thats usually where they point you to to download the most recent version.

But I may not always know what the most current file name is.

My directory contains
add_person_age_row_v10.0.0.1.cfg
adjust_date_column_v10.0.0.0.cfg
admin_users_menu_v9.0.0.3.cfg
allow_anon_guest_to_specific_pages.cfg
ancestors_map_1_add_map_v10.0.0.1.cfg
balanced_media_v9.0.3.1.cfg
bot-trap_v10.1.0.1.cfg
branches_sort_v10.0.0.1.cfg
burials_more_details_v9.2.0.5.cfg
calendar_assigned_branch_v10.0.1b.cfg
cemeteries_admin_list_v9.2.0.3.cfg

If the filename matches in their directory I’m good…
But if it doesnt, then I want to know.

Thanks
Jay

[Shikkediel]

I’d be thinking about using Ajax. For which cross domain restrictions may have to be relaxed (allowing the source site). I don’t think php could create such interaction with an alien server.

[Historical Forums User]

I was just thinking along the lines of

I have ver 5.2 check for that

if it’s NOT found then I need to look for reason
(which will probably be a new ver is out ver 5.3)

[Historical Forums User]

Alen,

I am waiting to hear back from the Admin about setting up an actual folder directory location on the server that the program currently resides on.

In the meantime, I have set up a test folder location on my web site.
Not sure if any settings need to be adjusted by my ISP in order for this to work. I did set the permissions for this directory to 755.

http://1familytree.com/Mods/versions/

and there are a dozen or so useless files there, with the correct filenames.

Thanks for any help,
Jay

[Shikkediel]

I don’t think php could create such interaction with an alien server.

Actually, it probably could but I doubt they’d let people run remote scripts on their server.

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