On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 03:05, 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?

Read up on the If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match HTTP headers.
That's assuming you use HTTP, of course.

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