From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 7:55:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E31B37B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2GFtQO93538; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:55:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Tony Finch Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010316075525.A93456@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <35525.984597779@critter> <20010314210758.A2405@roaming.cacheboy.net> <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314130025.A3031@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010314161646.A1482@dan.emsphone.com> <15023.61042.768406.854325@nomad.yogotech.com> <15023.61042.768406.854325@nomad.yogotech.com>; <20010314151022.B5250@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010316043025.A385@hand.dotat.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010316043025.A385@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:30:25AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:30:25AM +0000, Tony Finch 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. Then convience people to turn it on, and run some expierments. That's what people have advocated here. And since Apache already supports it, and the growing number of distfiles sites offering only http, this really seems the right path to take for now. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message