From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 14 13:38:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC9A37B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:38:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA56785; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:38:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Peter Pentchev , Dan Nelson , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd References: <20010313211544.B17733@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200103140459.VAA03061@usr05.primenet.com> <20010314084651.A23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010314012132.A91957@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010314112651.C23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010314101440.A5965@dan.emsphone.com> <20010314182106.A422@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010314144434.A2658@hamlet.nectar.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Mar 2001 22:38:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine"'s message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:44:35 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes: > It sounds reasonable to me. At a minimum, it could be used by the > ports system to avoid downloading files that appear like they will > not match the MD5 checksum anyway. If someone adds the 'SITE MD5' command to FreeBSD's ftpd, I'll add code to libfetch and fetch(1) to check the MD5 before downloading. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message