Group: CiteULike-discussion - Forum Thread

Hi,

Sorry for the numerous feature requests, but to be honest, you guys are just too darn responsive to my requests! You know, give a mouse a cookie...

Anyway, here's my latest wish: similar to the ability to get an MD5 sum of a given user's library bibtex file using a URL GET parameter, i.e.

http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/gjuggler/?md5=true

I was wondering if it would be possible to also get a timestamp of the last-modified date of the library. Something along the lines of:

http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/gjuggler/?timestamp=true

that would simply return the timestamp of the date of the last modification to my library.

Cheers, Greg

Another alternative might be to have the CGI set the last-modified field of the HTTP header (for BibTeX, RIS, and PDFs). This would allow all HTTP-conforming tools to be able to download files only if they have been modified since the last download, which would hopefully also reduce the load on the server. Time-stamping is supported by wget, for example, but it gets a 404 response from the server when this is turned on client-side (presumably because the server provides no last-modified?). Cheers, Chad PS: I also have to praise the CUL people for always having been very responsive.

For what it's worth, I've found an alternative way to do what I wanted... so in case this was being considered as a feature, cancel my vote!

Cheers,

Greg