In my ASP.NET MVC application I'm reading an external file
from URL and saving it into a directory on my server. I do this in a loop for
every few seconds to have actual data if the file was modified.
What I need is to recognize that the LastWrittenTime of the
file accessed via the URL is different from file already downloaded to the
server. I cannot use FileInfo class because "URI formats are not
supported".
So how do I get the last written time of the file from the
URL without needing to download the full file for every loop?
Anonymous User
03-Dec-2014Assuming your HTTP Server allows this.
When this method doesn't work because the server doesn't allow it. Then the only way of doing this is by fully downloading the file.