Documentation of the media.gz is now in the wiki. See
http://www.thousandparsec.net/wiki/Media.gz

Tim Ansell

On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 19:35 +0930, Tim Ansell wrote:
> Just following up on this old email.
> 
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:02 +1000, Brett Nash wrote:
> > > Despite TCP being reliable, it's fairly easy to corrupt a graphic
> > > download when using HTTP Resume.
> > > 
> > > It is also useful when the modification time changes, but the contents
> > > doesn't. (It's also somewhat useful for finding duplicate media.)
> > 
> > If you expect the mtime to change without changing the content, I'd
> > expect clients to be assuming the file as changed as well.
> 
> So you have never downloaded something over HTTP and found it to be
> corrupted? There are a number of ways for it to be corrupted and things
> like HTTP resume make it even worse. Then there are things like disk
> errors (which could be local or on a mirror server).
> 
> What is wrong with having an extra check?
> 
> > > It can't hurt to have, the client isn't forced to check the checksum.
> > 
> > That is terrible logic.
> 
> Why? My client which is going to use the checksum is going to always
> have the correct data. 
> 
> If your client can do it without using the checksum - good for you. It
> doesn't hurt you to have the checksums.
> 
> Tim Ansell

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