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url-copy-file does not use Last-Modified http header

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 5315 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5315: url-copy-file does not use Last-Modified http header
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 00:58:05 +0100

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

> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> 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.

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