Re: [tlug] File change info on upload to server

["David Shanahan" <david@example.com>]

>  Sorry, I wasn't sufficiently clear.
>
>  I don't need to know the information on my end. This is for the purpose of
> the people who are downloading my files, who want to know if the file has
> changed since the last time they downloaded it. Apparently the file is
> supposed to be flagged in some sort of way when it is updated.
>
>  Chuck

The people downloading your files would need to keep the headers
they recieved last time they downloaded the file.  If your server supports
the ETag header then this would be the best header to track.


david$ curl -I http://tlug.jp/index.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:49:13 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:33:17 GMT
ETag: "57-24bb-38d62140"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 9403
Content-Type: text/html