On 8/15/19 2:23 PM, Dalme wrote: > >> Are you saying that wget sends a wrong date with the If-Modified-Since >> header ? If so it's a bug on our side. Maybe you can come up with more >> details (--debug output). > No, sorry. What I'm trying to say is that when you take a look on the > wget manual at gnu.org of '-N' mode you find "Turn on time-stamping. See > Time-Stamping > <https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Time_002dStamping>, > for details". The link there is the one I sent on my first e-mail, and > there says it compares the sizes of the two files without mentioning > --no-if-modified-since. Something like the text you sent: >> What about >> >> "By default, Wget will download the remote file if the local file >> doesn't exist or if the time-stamp of the local file is older than the >> remote file. >> When using --no-if-modified-since, Wget will also download the remote >> file if the local file differs in size. This comes at the cost of one >> additional HEAD request per file." > > Would be nice on the manual, but it's not there (at least on the online > version I don't see it). Instead, it tells you how it worked on previous > versions, but it's the 1.20 Manual. > > I hope the explanation it's better now
Oh, it was just a suggestion how a rewrite *could* look like. If you agree, I'll add it. Regards, Tim
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