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[Savannah-hackers] Peculiar request


From: Paul Harrison
Subject: [Savannah-hackers] Peculiar request
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:16:53 +1000 (EST)

Hi,

I'm one of the developers of the "circle" project, and have a slightly
peculiar request. I want to be able to add some entries like this to the
..htaccess for the "circle" files area:

<Files Circle-0.35.tar.gz>
  Header add Content-MD5: ktd/yAtYroc5H03TNglnbA==
  Header add Content-SHA1: hbQFKYoX1f4UztRQT2kYEt8yxAc=
</Files>

Currently Apache on Savannah barfs at this. If it doesn't open some kind
of security hole, would it be possible to change the Apache configuration
to allow me to add these headers?

Why on earth would i want to do this? Well, if apache produces a
content-md5 header, a p2p program (for example, circle) might grab the
response headers and go and look up the file on it's network rather than
downloading it from the Savannah servers.

So when the next circle release comes around, one person downloads it from
Savannah and all our other users (all fifteen of them) get it off the
circle network. Ok, not a huge saving. But in principle, if everyone does
this, the bandwidth savings could be rather large.

cheers,
Paul

IM: pfh on thecircle.org.au
Email: address@hidden
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