Zitat von Avinash <pavinash_at_gmail.com>:

> Basically my requirement is to get the metadata of file pointed by HTTP URL
> and not the actual file.
>
> e.g if my URL is
> http://172.20.241.206/HTTP_Share/performance_data/mixed/pdf/6.pdf
>
> Then I do not want to download the file 6.pdf, but the metadata of 6.pdf
> like its size, access time, modification time etc.
>
> Is there any way to get all this meta-information without actually
> downloading it ?
>

Aaaah, that's now something "completely different" and can be made
with HTTP, namely with a so-called HEAD Request. ;-)
Size and modification time of a file are mostly part of the HEAD resposne.

With curl: curl --head URL
With wget: wget --server-response --spider URL

Regards,
J.Roderburg

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Received on 2010-05-18