Re: Naming ETag files?

Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, Paul Gilmartin via curl-users wrote:

> I would like to save my --etag-compare and --etag-save (probably the same 
> name) files with names generated from the --remote-header-name; perhaps as 
> simple as "$remote-header-name.ETag".  Is there an orderly and reliable way 
> to do this?

No there isn't. With some clever thinking maybe we can offer this in the 
future!

> As an alternative, is it possible to use "--write-out %{filename_effective}" 
> without actually downloading the resource?  I could then use 
> "$filename_effective.ETag" to name my ETags.

Having "${variables}" work more broadly would be cool but tricky since they 
are all available/done at different point in times, and generally safe to get 
*after* the transfer is complete...

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