From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Downloadiong and file dates
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:56:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a51001041456o6fc1c8c5vbf74c6dc1d3e92e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a51001041438y5dbad445r97ad1857cd027dca@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:20 PM, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "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.
>
>
> Thanks James.
>
>
>> Lennart> Does url-copy-file take care of "Last-Modified" if present? Should it?
>>
>> It ought to.
>
>
> A simple test of file download from EmacsWiki which uses
> "Last-Modified" for files shows that it does not.
>
> So there are two bugs here, one at Launchpad (does not send
> "Last-Modified") and one in Emacs (does not use "Last-Modified"). I
> will try to report them.
The Launchpad bug report is here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/503144
>> -JimC
>> --
>> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
>>
>
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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
2010-01-04 22:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-04 22:56 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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