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Get the Last-Modified Date Before HTTP Download

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Demonstrates how to send a HEAD request to get the last-modified date of a file on a web server (without downloading the file). PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

$resp = New-Object Chilkat.HttpResponse
$success = $http.HttpNoBody("HEAD","https://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml",$resp)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Examine the response header.
$($resp.Header)

#  Here is a sample response header:

#  	Content-Length: 279658
#  	Content-Type: text/xml
#  	Last-Modified: Thu, 12 May 2016 15:14:08 GMT
#  	Accept-Ranges: bytes
#  	ETag: "c1cd8bee60acd11:0"
#  	Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
#  	X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
#  	X-Powered-By-Plesk: PleskWin
#  	Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:40:54 GMT

#  Get the Last-Modified header.
$lastModStr = $resp.GetHeaderField("Last-Modified")
#  If the header exists...
if ($resp.LastMethodSuccess -eq $true) {
    #  Parse the RFC822 format date/time string
    $ckdt = New-Object Chilkat.CkDateTime
    $ckdt.SetFromRfc822($lastModStr)

    #  If we want to access individual date/time parts (in the local timezone)
    $dt = New-Object Chilkat.DtObj
    $ckdt.ToDtObj($true,$dt)

    $("day/month/year = " + $dt.Day + "/" + $dt.Month + "/" + $dt.Year)
}