Ian Hickson wrote:
If the idea is that UAs that implement this would stop you from using the
file if the checksum didn't match, then this would just cause users to use
browsers _without_ this feature to download files, since those browsers
wouldn't complain about data corruption. "It works when I use IE to
download the file but when I use Camari, it says 'checksum error'."
Hopefully, it would instead say:
"The file you have downloaded has been corrupted or tampered with."
[Delete File] [Keep Unsafe File]
It might even just delete it without asking you. After all, you haven't
actually got the file you wanted - or that the person linking wanted you
to have. If they didn't want this behaviour, they wouldn't have used a
URL with a hash.
Gerv
