Feature Request: Return Last-Modified header with HTTP responses.

[thesketh]

Hi there. I work in the Contain Data Platform Team over in NHS Digital, and we consume PHE's data for a few of our public-facing dashboards.

We've got some special cases in our pipeline code which use the COVID-19 Python SDK to get the update timestamps from the V1 API, but we've been a bit concerned about using the timestamp from one version of the API to decide whether to fetch a file from another version. It would be great if we were able to do a HEAD request on the API to see if the files have been updated, but the Last-Modified header is missing from the response.

Is this something that you'd be able to add? Alternatively, if the team are busy working on other improvements, would a pull request to add this functionality be welcome?

[xenatisch]

Thank you for getting in touch. I have added this request to our backlog for consideration.