From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 7:41:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (inch.demon.co.uk [194.222.223.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A94837B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@dotat.at) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.20 #3) id 14dm4A-000086-00 for freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:42:18 +0000 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:42:18 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010316044218.B385@hand.dotat.at> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010314185026.C7683@dragon.nuxi.com> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien 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