[jira] Commented: (COUCHDB-558) Validate Content-MD5 request headers on uploads

["Robert Newson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-558:
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This would be very useful but I think there will be pushback for choosing MD5 (Yes, it's not broken for this usage but try educating PHB's). A database creation time configuration for other digest algorithms would be cool, though I appreciate Erlang is limited in its choice (the only other choice is sha1, iirc?)

> Validate Content-MD5 request headers on uploads
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-558
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-558
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Database Core, HTTP Interface
>            Reporter: Adam Kocoloski
>             Fix For: 0.11
>
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> We could detect in-flight data corruption if a client sends a Content-MD5 header along with the data and Couch validates the MD5 on arrival.
> RFC1864 - The Content-MD5 Header Field
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1864.html

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