On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:38:51PM +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote: > > When mirroring http:// url, lftp sends HEAD command: > > ---> HEAD /anime/manga/Love%20Hina/lh02-016e.jpg HTTP/1.1 > > > > I'm not sure if this is really needed. It must know already which files > > are avaiable, so it could just use GET or whatever to download files. > > mirror tries to get file information first to determine if it was changed.
I think the problem is that it's making HEAD requests even when the local file doesn't exist (so we probably don't need to know the mod date.) -- Glenn Maynard
