Re: [nodejs] File Modified Date from an HTTP File?

2012-02-15 Thread Randy Merrill
Thanks for the help! I was able to retrieve just the HEAD using a HEAD method on the http request. I got so used to doing just GET and POST I didn't think there was a HEAD too. :) -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Postin

[nodejs] File Modified Date from an HTTP File?

2012-02-12 Thread Randy Merrill
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 th