Get a page's last modified date using Java

Question

Is there a standard way to tell when a page was last modified? Currently I am doing this:

URLConnection uCon = url.openConnection();
uCon.setConnectTimeout(500         


        

Answer 1

There is no standard. Dynamically generated web pages generally do not have a Last-Modified field, and different web pages include dates in different ways. Some sites do not even include such a date, including "© " at the bottom. You could try looking for a date near the bottom or the top, but reliably extracting the date from the web page would have to be site-specific.