If you control the server, you could use Etags ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag) but if you don't own the server, then I think you're in the same boat with the folks who write search indexers. On Feb 12, 2012 7:08 PM, "Randy Merrill" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am working on building an application that periodically reads in files > that are several gigabytes in size. > > I would like to make it so that I can poll the remote server and just get > the date the file was modified (or cached until, not sure what metric is > available). > > Is there a way to check that information without downloading the entire > file in Node? > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
