bug#5315: url-copy-file does not use Last-Modified http header

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> This means that downloaded files will get the download date, not the
> last modified date sent from the download server.

Yes, I think that's a feature.  It's what Firefox does, too.

 

Thanks Lars, I see.

However this is very inconvenient if you need the last modified date. How about making this an option when downloading files?

I did make a work around doing that. Though I did not make it an option.