# win\_get\_url and 'force: no' not working? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-get-url-and-force-no-not-working/24151 "2017-04-05T20:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cupcake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@cupcake](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cupcake)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-get-url-and-force-no-not-working/24151/1 "2017-04-05T20:26:24Z")
ansible 2.2.1.0 windows server 2008 r2 x64 Trying to use win\_get\_url for an xml file update. I can curl the file and see that it notices newer timestamp but force: no does not pull the new file down. pbook: ` ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-get-url-and-force-no-not-working/24151/2 "2017-04-05T22:10:57Z")
Looks like there’s only a few seconds there between the modification and the request (last example anyway). Just wondering if the clocks are in sync between the ansible controller and the windows box - they will need to agree on UTC for this to work. Also worth checking the timezones on both systems. Hope this helps, Jon ---
**Author:** ![cupcake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@cupcake](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cupcake)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-get-url-and-force-no-not-working/24151/3 "2017-04-05T22:42:42Z")
the second curl is the difference of the file from the earlier one, so it should have picked up but i see what you are saying if the other system is 30 sec off or so it might now. I’ve just re-run it again and it still fails so it def should have picked up by now. all three systems are EST and syncing to ntp; i can also auth with kerberos. interestingly, if i change the url argument to say a new txt file instead such as test.txt but keep the dest file the same on target, it still does not copy the file over. ` # date Wed Apr 5 18:29:13 EDT 2017 # curl -I [foo.com](http://windc1.foo.com/shares/test.txt) HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 5 Content-Type: text/plain Last-Modified: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:27:16 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: “bb360c85baed21:0” Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-get-url-and-force-no-not-working/24151/4 "2017-04-06T07:12:16Z")
I’m fairly certain it checks to see if the destination file exists before it attempts to retrieve last modified time - if the destination file doesn’t exist then it should attempt the download anyway. A bug fix was merged recently where the last-modified check wouldn’t respect proxy settings if you were using a proxy - but that doesn’t look like it applies to you. I mostly tested this with nginx but would be surprised if IIS is anything but well-behaved when it comes to correctly setting last-modified. Is there some network cleverness going on like squid or similar that might be confusing matter (although why it would not affect curl I can’t imagine)? ---
**Author:** ![cupcake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@cupcake](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cupcake)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-get-url-and-force-no-not-working/24151/5 "2017-04-06T10:42:36Z")
No network cleverness here ATM, these are just test machines right now on a single subnet. Vanilla rhel7.3 install and vanilla win install. Happy to set up another test scenario if it helps.