I'm downloading packages for my distro into a cache area on my local system.
I note there is an option to set if-modified-since as well a to get a cache-freshness value in getting back a response, but the cachefreshness value seems to always return 1, as it is the number of seconds old since the item was retrieved. Thing it, I'd like to get the time& date stamp on the remote item. Is there some header value that contains the time (in epoch seconds) for the remote item? I am also familiar with a variant of the 'GET' method -- 'mirror' which will set the value of my copy to that on the remote -- so something must have the actual time stamp of the remote object. I'm just not sure what call or interface I need to use to get at it directly. While the 'mirror' option might be good in the long term, until I'm sure all my bits and pieces fit together I'd like to be able to display the local and remote time stamps on the object. Anyone know the call/header value to use for getting at the remote object's last-modified time directly? Thanks!
