On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, John Allen wrote:
> A useful thing for Madrake update sites to do would be to put a TIMESTAMP
> file in the update directory, that way the update program could tell very
> quickly whether any updates were added since the last time it was run.
If retrieving via HTTP rather than FTP, it could use an If-Modified-Since
header to check if files have changed since the cached version. Nice and
simple; if there are no new files, the index would just return "Not
modified" and MU knows there's nothing new.
James.
