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

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 separate curl invocations.
>
>How about adding this paragraph to the --etag-save documentation?
>
>  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 command line.
>
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Looks good to me, I would only add "with the same filename" after
"--etag-compare".
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