- From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:54:42 +0200
- To: hallam@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
hallam@w3.org writes: [...] > We can fix the problem by simply introducing an algorithm parameter. Ie:- > Content-Digest: 2A1238912371239587; alg=SHA > This change was strongly recommended by Ron Rivest, author of MD5. I don't want to whine with "I said it... I said it..." but FYI draft-demailly-cd-header-00.txt which suggested exactly that almost 6 monthes ago expires in 15 days... just in time ;-) ( http://www.lyot.obspm.fr/~dl/draft-contentdigest.txt ) Regards dl ps: I know the issued has been settled very democraticaly already... but as the big chief says "you don't need an rfc to add an entity-header field", feel free to use Content-Digest in your (incompatible :-() implementations...
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