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Re: [RFE] Improve etag handling with --etag-compare-update
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:26:39 +0200 (CEST)
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.
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:26:39 +0200 (CEST)
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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