Re: [RFE] Improve etag handling with --etag-compare-update
Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:06:04 -0600
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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 command line. >> >> -- > Looks good to me, I would only add "with the same filename" after > "--etag-compare". > -- I would make that "*possibly* with the same filename". That should be obvious from the necessary processing sequence, yet I satisfied myself by experiment that it works. Perhaps I'm unduly cautious about using the same file for both input and output for any process. -- gil -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html