Roger monitors changes in HTTP status codes
Some time ago I found sensitive personal data on a public web page. I notified the system owner, but was curious to see if my report would have any impact. I decided to monitor the web page to see whether the information was removed.
Since I only wanted to know whether the web page was still online, monitoring changes in the HTTP status code (instead of changes in page content) was enough for this use case. One way of keeping up with the status of a webpage is hitting Refresh until you get a different HTTP status code... But I decided to let my computer do this for me, so I could use my time for more interesting activities.
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