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

Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:06:04 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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


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