From e68c3176aad7264b817118ba9b805bdafef90b8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Westgate Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 22:32:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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.