Re: Idea for securityfix in HTML from Toby Inkster on 2002-11-16 (www-forms@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Toby Inkster <tobyink@goddamn.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:32:49 +0000
To: "Xatr0z" <xatr0z@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: xatr0z@home.nl, www-forms@w3.org, www-html@w3.org, www-html-editor@w3.org
Message-Id: <20021116123249.04f4b47c.tobyink@goddamn.co.uk>

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On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:28:39 +0100
"Xatr0z" <xatr0z@home.nl> wrote:

| What do you feel about the idea to create a attribute which allows the
| client to send an (MD5) checksum of the file, to determine if the
| transport went well?

This is already a feature of HTTP (see the "Content-MD5" header) -- it's just not been implemented in most (any?) browsers.

It does not require any adjustments to HTML though.

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