On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:50 PM, A. Rauschenbach <rauschenb...@annuo.de> wrote: > 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. > > example: <a href="http://example.com/important.file"; > checksum="MD5:32c3675211199b671fbca1304d819289;SHA1:6e1ddeede3979c953788a3499616af35ee5fd772">download</a> > > Another advantage is that your visitors (browser) can verify that the > document (e.g. a pdf) you linked to is still the same.
If you serve important files over HTTP without TLS I don't think a checksum is going to help anyone much. We did have something similar to this, but it got dropped: http://html5.org/r/7434 -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
