curl/docs/cmdline-opts/etag-compare.md
Daniel Stenberg 2494b8dd51
docs/cmdline: change to .md for cmdline docs
- switch all invidual files documenting command line options into .md,
   as the documentation is now markdown-looking.

 - made the parser treat 4-space indents as quotes

 - switch to building the curl.1 manpage using the "mainpage.idx" file,
   which lists the files to include to generate it, instead of using the
   previous page-footer/headers. Also, those files are now also .md
   ones, using the same format. I gave them underscore prefixes to make
   them sort separately:
   _NAME.md, _SYNOPSIS.md, _DESCRIPTION.md, _URL.md, _GLOBBING.md,
   _VARIABLES.md, _OUTPUT.md, _PROTOCOLS.md, _PROGRESS.md, _VERSION.md,
   _OPTIONS.md, _FILES.md, _ENVIRONMENT.md, _PROXYPREFIX.md,
   _EXITCODES.md, _BUGS.md, _AUTHORS.md, _WWW.md, _SEEALSO.md

 - updated test cases accordingly

Closes #12751
2024-01-23 14:30:15 +01:00

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c SPDX-License-Identifier Long Arg Help Protocols Added Category Multi See-also Example
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. curl etag-compare <file> Pass an ETag from a file as a custom header HTTP 7.68.0 http single
etag-save
time-cond
--etag-compare etag.txt $URL

--etag-compare

This option makes a conditional HTTP request for the specific ETag read from the given file by sending a custom If-None-Match header using the stored ETag.

For correct results, make sure that the specified file contains only a single line with the desired ETag. An empty file is parsed as an empty ETag.

Use the option --etag-save to first save the ETag from a response, and then use this option to compare against the saved ETag in a subsequent request.