https://wiki.whatwg.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=StijnWHATWG Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-07T05:57:35ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.3https://wiki.whatwg.org/index.php?title=Talk:Link_Hashes&diff=2387Talk:Link Hashes2007-07-28T20:23:01Z<p>Stijn: </p>
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<div>==== Link Fingerprint ====<br />
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Just a note to say that while this is certainly out of scope for HTML, it's nonetheless a good solution, and mentioning it there, with enough details, can serve of a justification to not include other proposed solutions in the spec. --[[User:Michel Fortin|Michel Fortin]] 09:56, 17 November 2006 (PST)<br />
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== Metalink? ==<br />
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http://www.metalinker.org/<br />
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Metalinks can contain hashes (in several, extensible, formats) and also other information, like target platform, language and list of mirrors.<br />
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Maybe instead of specyfing only hashes in HTML, we should encourage adoption of metalink?<br />
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[[User:KornelLesinski|KornelLesinski]] 09:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)<br />
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Just to clarify, Metalink is a single extensible XML format that allows you to list anywhere from none to multiple full file hashes/checksums (MD5, SHA-1, etc) for a file, along with chunk checksums which allow downloads to be repaired if there are errors.<br />
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[[User:AntBryan|AntBryan]] 21:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)<br />
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==From Proposed Solutions==<br />
<blockquote>To be completed: what to do about non-download links, like links to other pages, when they have a hash?</blockquote><br />
Those other pages will also have a hash (or at least, it will be possible to hash the HTML file or whatever kind of file the page is) which can be checked; might be used if the page author wants the user to be noticed of changes in the page that is linked to since the hash was put in the link. [[User:Stijn|Stijn]] 20:23, 28 July 2007 (UTC)</div>Stijn