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How to get the date of a file on the web?

Matthew Givens

I have an application (.NET 3.5) that runs, scans a webpage for links to PDF files, and downloads those files (using WebResponse). I want to modify it so that it ONLY downloads the file IF it has been changed since my program ran last. So, given that I have the file name:

http://www.SomeWebsite.com/customer_data/document.pdf

How can I determine the creation and last modified date of that file? Preferably WITHOUT downloading the file, of course.

Any suggestions?

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Lalit M16y ago

here code sample of get last modification file information

//get the size of a file in bytes

lngBytes = FileLen("C:\\thefile.pdf");

//get the modified date of c:\thefile.pdf

vDate = FileDateTime("C:\\thefile.pdf");

vAttributes = GetAttr("C:\\thefile.pdf");

//see if the file has a read-only attribute

if (vAttributes & vbReadOnly) {

//has read-only attribute

}

//see if the file is hidden

if (vAttributes & vbHidden) {

//has read-only attribute

}
another sample might be help
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