Re: Binary comparison of files

Per Bolmstedt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.advanced
Message-ID <LISTSERV%[email protected]>
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:04:27 -0500, Eddie Lascu <[email protected]> wrote:

> I need to quickly check if the content of a file has 
> changed. [...] this file is read from the Internet [...]

Are you using HTTP? That *normally* provides several mechanisms for telling you whether a resource (eg. your file) has changed. ETags (if-none-match), timestamp checks (if-newer-than) etc. 

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