diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f6a50d2..8b3a0f4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ -This web app allows a user to be notified via e-mail when a website they wish to track has been updated. Updates are currently monitored via periodic HEAD requests to specified urls, and checking for updates of etag or last-modified headers. Future versions of this application will perform more sophisticated checks of the web page. +This web app allows a user to be notified via e-mail when a website they wish to track has been updated. Updates are currently monitored via periodic HEAD requests to specified urls, and checking for updates of etag or last-modified headers. + +Deployers of this application will also need to supply access to an SMTP server in config.js for e-mail notifications, and should implement SSL for secure authenication. + +Future updates will include: +- Encrypted password storge (High priority) +- Account management (change password, delete accounts) +- Fine tuning of notification preferences(frequency and time to check for website updates) +- More robust, and threshold checks for web page differences (currently using last-modified and etag HTTP headers) -Deployers of this application will also need to supply access to an SMTP server for e-mail notifications and should implement SSL for secure authenication.