Strange behaviour of a certain watch

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add a watch for http://www.originofemotions.com/, refresh time e.g. 1 hour 
2. Be patient, next time you start Specto or next morning it will be
notified as changed even though it seems to be a very static and harmless
webpage. It seems that Specto must have been down and up again and
refresh-time must have elapsed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The problem occurs in the released version as well as in the version from svn

Please provide any additional information below.
Extract from the error log:
2006-11-16 22:50:10 - main.Specto  - INFO - Beobachtung "origin" gestoppt
2006-11-16 22:50:10 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Aktualisiere
Beobachtung: "origin"
2006-11-16 22:50:11 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Abweichung
Prozent:18.93 (Beobachtung "origin")
2006-11-16 22:50:11 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Beobachtung
"origin" aktualisiert!
2006-11-16 22:50:11 - main.Specto  - INFO - Beobachtung "origin" gestartet

Original issue reported on code.google.com by knut.ger...@alice-dsl.net on 16 Nov 2006 at 10:01

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I am not sure I understand properly. Did you try with lower refresh times (every
minute) and see if it is "updated" often? If yes, that's the website changing 
quite
often. Or a problem on the website, on the first look.

I have taken a brief look at originofemotions.com and it seems quite unstable! 
I have
stepped two times on a "connection reset by peer" kind of error so far, and now 
I
just tried pinging it, no replies!

jeff@khloe:~$ ping originofemotions.com
PING originofemotions.com (205.178.189.131) 56(84) bytes of data.
[nothing happens for more than 5 minutes]

Isn't something wrong with that website? :|

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2006 at 9:09

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Furthermore, I just refreshed my watches and your website was indeed updated. I
looked into the debuging information (can be seen if you "edit" the watch):

2006-11-17 15:49:22 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Updating watch: 
"origin of
emotions"
2006-11-17 15:49:35 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Updating watch: 
"origin of
emotions"
2006-11-17 15:49:35 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Difference 
percentage:0.0
(Watch: "origin of emotions")
2006-11-17 16:40:13 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Updating watch: 
"origin of
emotions"
2006-11-17 16:40:13 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Difference 
percentage:15.92
(Watch: "origin of emotions")
2006-11-17 16:40:13 - watch_web_static.Web_watch - INFO - Watch "origin of 
emotions"
updated!

Your website really has some weird things going on: it changed size 16%!

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2006 at 9:43

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It is not my website so I don't know what's the matter with it. Question is: Is 
it
the website or the program? What classes of websites would misbehave like that 
and
can it be avoided? If it's just a single case of bad website-design, forget it.
Maybe I can investigate a little more next week. 

Original comment by knut.ger...@alice-dsl.net on 18 Nov 2006 at 11:04

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I looked at the source code, this page uses frames (argh!). So you were 
watching the
Frameset, not even the contents! The frame is actually used because you accessed
originofemotions.com, but the contents is in 
http://www.theoriginofemotions.com, and
the webmaster has been too dumb (sorry :) to use a proper server redirection, 
he just
used a frame. You should mail him about this. I don't know if that's the 
problem, but
I think you should try again with the URL http://www.theoriginofemotions.com 
and see
if it works any better. If it does, mail the webmaster and tell him to use a 
proper
http redirect
(http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sJJiiwGmFcAJ:www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback&hl=e
n&lr=&strip=1)

If that was the case, I think Specto would even have picked up the URL and 
corrected
it for you :)

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2006 at 1:25

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ok, I changed originofemotions.com to theoriginofemotions.com and the false 
alarm
hasn't come up for a few days now, so please close the issue

Original comment by knut.ger...@alice-dsl.net on 21 Nov 2006 at 11:00

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... it really was strange :|

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2006 at 10:35

• Changed state: Invalid

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Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2008 at 6:17

• Changed state: Verified

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Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2008 at 1:53

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