The http request method "HEAD" should work. Standard ones you are used to are "GET" and "POST". The HEAD method simply checks the header which can tell it things like date modified and size.
" This method can be used for obtaining metainformation about the entity implied by the request without transferring the entity-body itself. This method is often used for testing hypertext links for validity, accessibility, and recent modification. " [1] Section 9.4 [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 9:52 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org; Tom Chiverton Subject: Re: [DRAFT 2] 4.13.0 Announcement Because it adds up to gigs of data. Sent via the PANTECH Discover, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone. Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> wrote: Why's this an AIR app ? Surely a bit of bash that pulls the file once an hour, checks the size and hash, and then runs the svn commands would be easier ? Tom On 25/07/14 08:06, Alex Harui wrote: > Technically, we are good to go, but I've chickened out of pushing the > announcement because I am trying to finish up an AIR app that will at > least monitor the checksums, and maybe even auto-update the config.xml > file. The worst case scenario is we announce, 500 folks start downloading > and moments after the announce Adobe updates the playerglobal or AIR SDK > and 500 folks fail to install while we are sleeping. But if folks think > we should just announce then we can go for it. > > I've found out how browsers check the last modified time on things in the > cache and am trying to get that to work from AIR. Then the next step > would be to figure out how to auto-update the config.xml. Do you know if > there is a way to automate the svnpubsub? > > > -Alex > > On 7/24/14 12:25 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Alex, are we good to go? >> >> If there are no more changes to this draft, I will put out a blog post. >> >> Thanks, >> Om >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 7/22/14 12:59 AM, "Tom Chiverton" <t...@extravision.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Wil https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34405 be fixed by then ? >>> No, it was reported after we voted to release. Since we got several >>> months into 4.12.1 before it was reported, I don't see it as a reason >>> not >>> to release. Volunteers are welcome, of course, to fix the bug and push >>> a >>> 4.13.1 if they have the time and energy. >>> >>>> What about adl etc ending up in the wrong place sometimes ? That should >>>> definitely be called out as a known issue ? >>> AFAICT, it has been broken for a long time and only discovered recently, >>> so again I wouldn't mess with the release notes and packaging to call it >>> out. Not sure I want to mention known issues that have so far affected >>> few people in the announcement: I would rather focus on positive >>> messages. >>> But if others agree with you I will add it. And again, volunteers are >>> welcome to address this issue as well. >>> >>> -Alex >>> >>> > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ >
