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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Downloadiong and file dates
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:20:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k4vx341n.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a51001031807t75072e0ao947d12c042758d47@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:07:19 +0100")

>>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

Lennart> There is a "Last-Modified" header that perhaps could be used
Lennart> for this. Would that be correct use for that header?

Yes; that is exactly what most (every?) http client uses to set the
mtime on downloaded files.

Lennart> Does url-copy-file take care of "Last-Modified" if present? Should it?

It ought to.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6




  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-04 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04  2:07 Downloadiong and file dates Lennart Borgman
2010-01-04 22:20 ` James Cloos [this message]
2010-01-04 22:38   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-04 22:56     ` Lennart Borgman

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