Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote: |On 2017-10-25 12:52, Paul Eggert wrote: |> On 10/24/2017 05:38 PM, Kim Davies wrote: ... |> If the 2017c release is here: |> |> https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2017c.tar.lz ... |If the web site also had HTTP server or HTML redirections from |tz{code,data,db}-latest.tar.?z to tz{code,data,db}-yyyyr.tar.?z |which returned 304 Not Modified or 307 Temporary Redirect (keep using the |original URI) status codes that would allow those who want to get and check |explicit versions to quickly quit most days of the year, as we do currently \ |with |FTP. I did not know it yesterday, but such a thing exists, actually: ?0[steffen@essex tmp]$ s-curl -I https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:02:46 GMT X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests Last-Modified: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:19:20 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-control: public, s-maxage=600, max-age=3600 Expires: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:02:46 GMT Content-Type: application/x-lzip Server: Apache Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=47304003; preload X-Cache-Hits: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: keep-alive --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)