Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:42:18 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010316044218.B385@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <20010314185026.C7683@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20010314084651.A23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200103142342.QAA09233@usr08.primenet.com> <20010314161555.A4984@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010314161555.A4984@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; <20010314185026.C7683@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com> wrote: > >How?? are clients going to take advantage of it? For the majority of FTP >clients want to fetch the file, so why ask for an MD5 of it? Are you >thinking about checking the xfer was OK? That's the only use I can think >of. This is in fact the example used in an early paper about end-to-end protocol design, one of the foundation papers of the modern Internet :-) >Since making a loadable Apache module is so much less intrusive, I call >on those wanting to experiment with this feature to do this thru this >path. If you can get the Apache people to either bundle the module as a >standard thing, or convince large sites to load it; THEN hack ftpd. Apache already has support for this in the server core, since it is part of the HTTP standard. Look at the docs for the ContentDigest directive. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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