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

From: Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:06:04 -0600

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.

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gil
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