- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:04:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Gervase Markham wrote: > 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." "It works when I use IE but when I use Camari, it says that the file has been corrupted." "Oh man, I'm not using Camari then! I don't need my music to get corrupted!" > [Delete File] [Keep Unsafe File] "Keep Unsafe File" would make the feature as useless as SSL certificates are today. > 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. Exactly. But then you're back to the "it works in the older browser" problem. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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