Re: [RFE] Improve etag handling with --etag-compare-update

Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:37:17 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Aleksei via curl-users wrote:

> I'm trying to implement a "download only if updated on a remote
> resource" functionality with a curl script using etags.
>
> Currently the etag file saved with --etag-save becomes useless after a 
> single update on a remote resource.

I don't understand. Can you elaborate? If the remote resource is indeed 
updated, surely it should download again and update the etag file?

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