On 4/29/25 01:46, Aleksei via curl-users wrote:
In many situations you want to use an existing etag in the request
to avoid
downloading the same resource again but also save the new etag if it
has
indeed changed, by using both etag options --etag-save and
--etag-compare,
in the same comm
On 2025-04-29, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2025, Aleksei wrote:
Thanks for explanations Daniel, all clear now. Perhaps these things
should be mentioned in the man page, the current --etag-save and
--etag-compare sections gave me a clear impression these options are
to be used in separ
On Tue, 29 Apr 2025, Aleksei wrote:
Thanks for explanations Daniel, all clear now. Perhaps these things should
be mentioned in the man page, the current --etag-save and --etag-compare
sections gave me a clear impression these options are to be used in separate
curl invocations.
How about add
On 2025-04-29, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2025, Aleksei wrote:
curl --etag-compare file0.etag --etag-save file0.etag $URL
... which only downloads the URL again if it is different than the
last download.
If they work together in a single invocation then great, no enhancement
needed
On Tue, 29 Apr 2025, Aleksei wrote:
If they work together in a single invocation then great, no enhancement
needed. Man page describes ETag usage in separate requests:
Use the option --etag-save to first save the ETag from a response, and
then use this option to compare against the saved ETa
On 2025-04-29, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
curl --etag-compare file0.etag --etag-save file0.etag $URL
/ daniel.haxx.se || https://rock-solid.curl.dev
If they work together in a single invocation then great, no enhancement
needed. Man page describes ETag usage in separate requests:
Use the option
