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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:30:25 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd
Message-ID:  <20010316043025.A385@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <20010314151022.B5250@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20010314105918.A5204@roaming.cacheboy.net> <35525.984597779@critter> <20010314210758.A2405@roaming.cacheboy.net> <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314130025.A3031@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpelw0yqun.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010314161646.A1482@dan.emsphone.com> <15023.61042.768406.854325@nomad.yogotech.com> <15023.61042.768406.854325@nomad.yogotech.com>; <20010314151022.B5250@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
>
>Can you address the fact that the majority of MASTERSITES either use
>HTTP, or offer it and is thus given perference by all maintainers (except
>me).  Thus this hack has pretty low coverage, *even* if you get the
>native Linux, wu-ftpd, and ProFTPd to accept it.

Content-MD5 is already in the HTTP standard, so it has more coverage
than you think. It is supported by Apache, however "ContentDigest On"
must be added to the configuration file since it isn't there by
default.

Tony.
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