Yaouh! out (update for tangogps maps)

[Tilman Baumann]

Tilman Baumann wrote:
> Carlo Minucci wrote:
>> Xavier Cremaschi ha scritto:
>>> Carlo Minucci a écrit :
>>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Yaouh!
>>>>
>>>> i a simple interface for update the maps of tangogps
>>>> it's optimized for low band usage
>>> Just a question : how can you check the remote file without dowloading 
>>> it before ? Do you use etag [1] to do that ?
>> yes
>> etag
>>
>> i check with this:
>>
>> curl -I http://tile.openstreetmap.org/$file | grep ETag | cut -d "\"" -f 2
>>
>> do you know a better way?
> 
> Doen't python have a http lib? Calling external apps is not really the 
> fastest and safest way.
> 

Untested code:

  import httplib
  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("tile.openstreetmap.org")
  conn.request("HEAD", "/file...")
  r1 = conn.getresponse()
  print r1.status, r1.reason
  etag = getheader("ETag")
  print etag

And if stuff was new, make GET instead of HEAD



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