On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Deepak Nagaraj <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The "ContentDigest" option does not seem to convert the MD5 to network >> byte order before doing base64 encoding. The RFC says: > > It's 16 bytes, what reordering did you want to do? Byte order only > applies to stuff larger than individual bytes. > The RFC considers it as a 128-bit "digest" (=number). It can be divided into 16 bytes in either host order or network order. Because the RFC says "when viewed in network order", it implies that we need to do host-to-network conversion. This is the conversion I'm referring to.
-deepak
