On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, DOMINICK C MEGLIO wrote:

> Can someone explain to me how I use CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION/CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE
> (I couldn't seem to find an example).

You set a condition you want to use with TIMECONDITION, and then you set the
corresponding time with TIMEVALUE.

> Am I right in assuming this can be used for caching?

It can be used to only retrieve remote documents that have been modified since
a given time, or not modified since that time.

> I.e. if the version on the server is the same as on disk, simply load from
> disk?

Yes, you can use it for that.

> That's what I'm trying to do. I think I understand what I set those options
> too, my question is, when I call curl_easy_perform is there an error code
> that is something like "file on server is same or older than on disk" or
> something so that I know to load it from disk?

libcurl doesn't help you all the way with this, you need to fetch the HTTP
response code and if you got a 304 back, it means that the timecondition
didn't evaluate true.

So, if you ask for "If-Modified-Since" and use a time of your local file, you
will get a 200 and the updated file if it is newer on the server, or you'll
get a 304 back if the file on the server is not newer than your local one.

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