Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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). Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpNoBody("HEAD","https://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml",resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Examine the response header.
print resp.header() + "\n";

#  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.get_LastMethodSuccess() == true)
    #  Parse the RFC822 format date/time string
    ckdt = Chilkat::CkDateTime.new()
    ckdt.SetFromRfc822(lastModStr)

    #  If we want to access individual date/time parts (in the local timezone)
    dt = Chilkat::CkDtObj.new()
    ckdt.ToDtObj(true,dt)

    print "day/month/year = " + dt.get_Day().to_s() + "/" + dt.get_Month().to_s() + "/" + dt.get_Year().to_s() + "\n";
end