On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Mohit Kumar wrote:

> I no about this option however i am unaware as to how to use it. If u could
> give me a small example such as obtaining the Last Modified Date from a
> parcticuler resource of the net would certainly be useful.

Ok, this is written off the top of my head, but I think you'll understand the
principle anyway:

/* a little callback for the headers */

size_t headerfunc(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream)
{
  char *header = (char *)ptr;
  time_t timing=0;

  if(!strncmp("Last-Modified:", header, 14))
    timing = curl_getdate(&header[14], NULL);

  return size * nmemb;
}

... and you setup the header callback and a HEAD request like this:

  /* we want the headers to this callback */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, headerfunc);

  /* use HEAD */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);

I hope this helps!

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