Re: lynx-dev downloading and metadata

[Al Gilman]

At 03:45 PM 2002-04-27 , you wrote:
>Speaking of downloading, I've wondered about something.
>
>If a server sends a Last-Modified header with a file, can that be 
>used to set the file's modification date when it's downloaded?
>
>And if so, could that be extended so that additional headers supply 
>more metadata?
>

[talking through my hat] Are you a customer for rsync?  for SRB?

http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/

Like Tom, I wouldn't invest a lot in trusting what webservers give you for 
Last-Modified.

Al

>
>thanks,
>-Walter
>  who gets confused by 5-year-old files having a current date
>
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