- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:47:00 +0200
- To: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org, "A. Rauschenbach" <rauschenbach@annuo.de>
On 2012-10-19 14:01, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > "A. Rauschenbach" <rauschenbach@annuo.de> schrieb am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 > 13:50:04 +0200: > >> I'm sick of coping the checksum of important files by hand or QR-code >> to the download manager or console. >> >> To solve the problem I suggest a checksum attribute in the <a href> >> tag. > > It seems that problem is solved at the HTTP level with RFC 1864: > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1864> The latest spec defining Content-MD5 was RFC 2616. It will not be included in the revision of HTTP/1.1 because of broken interop for Range requests, and because of the weakness of MD5 (see <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/178> for context). That being said a new response header field that is well-defined wrt to partial responses and more flexible wrt to digest algorthms would be interesting. > ... Best regards, Julian
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