At 04:08p -0400 04/27/2002, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
>On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 12:45:24PM -0700, Walter Ian Kaye 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? > >I suppose so - but browsing around and looking at the related info, I >haven't found the last-modified item to be very reliable. Is that because it wasn't designed to be? Is there any other way to get that metadata? > > And if so, could that be extended so that additional headers supply > > more metadata? > >for instance? For instance, all of a filesystem's metadata. (Some ask why; I ask why not.) At 08:55p -0400 04/27/2002, Al Gilman didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >[talking through my hat] Are you a customer for rsync? for SRB? > >http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/ Never heard of it (them?), but it looks kinda interesting. >Like Tom, I wouldn't invest a lot in trusting what webservers give >you for Last-Modified. Maybe it's time to define a set of file metadata headers? It's something I've often thought about (and even scribbled about somewhere). Like, "FileMeta-Date-Modified:" and "FileMeta-Mac-Creator:" etc. -Walter ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
