{"id":1642,"date":"2010-03-29T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T09:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T09:08:47","slug":"an-ftp-hash-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/an-ftp-hash-command\/","title":{"rendered":"An FTP hash command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Bryan strikes again. This time his name is attached to a new standards draft for how to get a hash checksum of a given file when using the FTP protocol. <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/search\/draft-bryan-ftp-hash-00\">draft-bryan-ftp-hash-00<\/a> was published just a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is basically to introduce a spec for a new command named &#8216;HASH&#8217; that a client can issue to a server to get a hash checksum for a given file in order to know that the file has the exact same contents you want before you even start downloading it or otherwise consider it for actions.<\/p>\n<p>The spec details how you can ask for different hash algorithms, how the server announces its support for this in its FEAT response etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already provided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/mail-archive\/web\/apps-discuss\/current\/msg01373.html\">some initial feedback<\/a> on this draft, and I&#8217;ll try to assist Anthony a bit more to get this draft pushed onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Bryan strikes again. This time his name is attached to a new standards draft for how to get a hash checksum of a given file when using the FTP protocol. draft-bryan-ftp-hash-00 was published just a few days ago. The idea is basically to introduce a spec for a new command named &#8216;HASH&#8217; that a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/an-ftp-hash-command\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An FTP hash command<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,133],"tags":[233,249],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-net","category-security","tag-ftp","tag-ietf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}