The ability to update snapshots on demand has been the most requested feature by SnapCasa users.  Today I am happy to announce the new feature which will allow premium users to update snapshots on their schedule.  The information provided below regarding this new feature applies only to premium users.  We will allow both basic and premium users to manually make update requests from their admin pages shortly.

Making an update request is as simple as making a snap request.  Each update request will subtract three premium credits from your account.  Update requests should be sent to the url below with the three required parameters included.

http://SnapCasa.com/update.aspx?code=[CODE]&update=[UPDATE]&url=[URL]

Required Parameters:

·         code: This is your unique user code and is identical to the one you use to make snapshot requests.  You can find your user code by logging into your admin account.

·         update:  This parameter should contain a value of 0 or 1.  You should use a value of 0 when you want to retrieve the last modified date of a particular snapshot.  There is no credit charge for this type of request.  If you would like to initiate an update of a snapshot you should set this value to 1. 

·         url: This is the url of the snapshot you would like to update.  The url must have been captured before to initiate an update. 

Sample Request:

http://SnapCasa.com/update.aspx?code=1000&update=1&url=google.com

Update Request Responses:

SnapCasa will respond to your request with custom headers and will also display a message on the page.  The header ‘update-status’ will be returned with each request.  The possible numeric values are:

·         1 –  Update request was successful.

·         2 –  URL already queued for update.

·         3 – Requested url doesn’t exist.

·         4 – Invalid parameter values.

·         5 –  Missing parameter values.

·         6 –  Invalid url.

·         7 –  Insufficient Credits

·         8 –  Info request successful (only when update parameter = 0)

The header ‘snapshot-modified’ will also be returned when ‘update-status’ equals 1, 2, or 8.  This header will contain the date when the snapshot was last modified in the format 12/01/2008 12:00:00 AM