[whatwg] checksum attribute in a href tag
Nils Dagsson Moskopp
nils at dieweltistgarnichtso.net
Fri Oct 19 05:01:09 PDT 2012
"A. Rauschenbach" <rauschenbach at annuo.de> schrieb am Fri, 19 Oct 2012
13:50:04 +0200:
> I'm sick of coping the checksum of important files by hand or QR-code
> to the download manager or console.
>
> To solve the problem I suggest a checksum attribute in the <a href>
> tag.
It seems that problem is solved at the HTTP level with RFC 1864:
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1864>
> Another advantage is that your visitors (browser) can verify that the
> document (e.g. a pdf) you linked to is still the same.
Cool URIs should not change.
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Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann
<http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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