Retrieving modified date of file using QHttp

[hardgeus]

header.setValue("If-Modified-Since", "Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:24:26 GMT");

Ack, I need to stop answering my own questions. After some digging into the HTTP spec, any invalid date is silently ignored, this includes any dates in the future. I have 304 responses now. Now to figure out how to make my local files have the same date stamp as the file on the server :P

[jacek]

Now to figure out how to make my local files have the same date stamp as the file on the server

QFileInfo::lastModified()
QDateTime::toUTC()
http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?title=QLocale

[hardgeus]

QFileInfo::lastModified()

I already have that much working for determining whether the local file is newer than the file on the server (since I am sending the local stamp in the Get header, and the server is determining whether to send a 304, I don't really need to know the server side time in this step), so far so good, but the problem is that whenever I *save* the file, its local timestamp is set to whenever I downloaded it, and not the timestamp from the server. I was hoping that this would be handled transparently, but it looks like I am going to have to manually retrieve the server side file timestamp and manually set it to my local file.

[hardgeus]

OK, I got it. In my slot for readResponseHeader I can pull the last modified date:

QString sModified = responseHeader.value( "Last-Modified" );

I promise I'll shut up now until I have the full code ready to link :P

[hardgeus]

I promise I'll shut up now until I have the full code ready to link :P

Unless someone wants to save me a few hours of digging and tell me how to manually set the modify date on a file :P

[jacek]

Unless someone wants to save me a few hours of digging and tell me how to manually set the modify date on a file :P

You can use utime(2), it's a part of POSIX, so it should be available on windows too.