Hi,

I have tried to use the -z option to send HTTP if-modified-since requests.
Having downloaded a file using

curl -Ro aaa http://host/path

and now requesting

curl -i -z aaa http://host/path

works fine, returning HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified
However, a request which should be completely analogous

curl -i -z "`date -r aaa`" http://host/path

doesn't issue an if-modified-since request and always returns the file. Since
the date expression generated by the date -r (or date --reference) command
is completely legal, I suspect there is a bug here.

Parenthetically, there is a problem also in the "works fine" case: if you don't
specify -i, you get nothing, not even an error return!!!

Best,

Zvi.

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                              Monday, 11 Tevet 5763, 16 December 2002,  1:11PM
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