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Re: FILETIME

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:55:06 +0100 (MET)

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Adrian Mardare wrote:

[sorry for not having replied earlier, I've been away from my mail the last
two weeks something]

*PLEASE use the mailing list!*

> > Hm, well I'm open for suggestions how this could be improved. I believe
> > that you can indeed try to get the time before the download is completed,
> > as long as the get info call is made synchronously.

> You mean call get info from another thread, while the download is done by
> another thread?

Nope. I meant: call it from a callback function.

> I thought the easy (CURL*) structure cannot be shared between threads.

That's still very true.

> For now I can do this: have a CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION and in the header
> function look for the "Last Modified:" line. If that line is found and if
> the file is already in cache, I can return -1 from the header function and
> this will stop the transfer. This doesn't work for "ftp://" downloads.

How would you like it to work?

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    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2002-01-01