[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 georgestephanis):

 I seem to recall something around April or so when mdawaffe or nacin
 remarked that plugin md5s from different servers didn't match -- due to
 something marking either a compilation timestamp or marking which server
 built the zip -- I don't recall exactly, but there was a reason that the
 same plugin downloaded from different places didn't have matching md5s.

 Which just means you wouldn't be able to compare the file md5 & header md5
 with an external hash listing, they should still match up but that's all
 coming from the same request.

 I think.

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