[Bug 11895] Make Downloads more reliable by specifying checksums

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11895

--- Comment #3 from Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> 2011-01-27 21:14:51 UTC ---
> Or if the major user agents (Firefox/IE/Chrome) support it?

Firefox does not, but there's a patch in progress to add support in the next
few months, most likely.

I don't know about the others.


> This places a burden on the server because it has to compute the checksum upon
> every request.

Or just store it on the server and put it in the header, right?

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Received on Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:14:53 UTC