Ian Hickson wrote: > If the idea is that UAs that implement this would stop you from using the > file if the checksum didn't match, then this would just cause users to use > browsers _without_ this feature to download files, since those browsers > wouldn't complain about data corruption. "It works when I use IE to > download the file but when I use Camari, it says 'checksum error'." Hopefully, it would instead say: "The file you have downloaded has been corrupted or tampered with." [Delete File] [Keep Unsafe File] It might even just delete it without asking you. After all, you haven't actually got the file you wanted - or that the person linking wanted you to have. If they didn't want this behaviour, they wouldn't have used a URL with a hash. GervReceived on Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:23:41 UTC
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