[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #619: Add Content-MD5 headers to downloads

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#619: Add Content-MD5 headers to downloads
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  Reporter:  nacin        |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Component:  General
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:1 Otto42]:
 > I know little to nothing about how our particular nginx config is setup,
 but:
 >
 > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24507157/adding-custom-http-headers-
 to-nginx-x-accel-redirect
 >
 > `add_header Content-MD5 $upstream_http_content_md5;`
 >

 That does what's needed in our setup, Once upon a time it required some
 pretty nasty hacky location blocks (basically double proxying the x-accel-
 redirect) in order to work, but not no more.

 IIRC we didn't enable this on downloads.wordpress.org due to concern over
 the error message in core when the checksum would fail.

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