curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION.md
Daniel Stenberg eefcc1bda4
docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730
2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLINFO_FILETIME (3)
- CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE (3)
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION - select condition for a time request
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION, long cond);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Pass a long as parameter. This defines how the CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE(3) time
value is treated. You can set this parameter to *CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE*
or *CURL_TIMECOND_IFUNMODSINCE*.
The last modification time of a file is not always known and in such instances
this feature has no effect even if the given time condition would not have
been met. curl_easy_getinfo(3) with the *CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET*
option can be used after a transfer to learn if a zero-byte successful
"transfer" was due to this condition not matching.
# DEFAULT
CURL_TIMECOND_NONE (0)
# PROTOCOLS
HTTP, FTP, RTSP, and FILE
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
/* January 1, 2020 is 1577833200 */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, 1577833200L);
/* If-Modified-Since the above time stamp */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION,
(long)CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE);
/* Perform the request */
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
Always
# RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK