automatic md5 check -- url fingerprint or md5 file
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:48 pm
Hi,
FDM is growing on me. It has several features that other downloaders struggle with or are missing completely. You're doing a fantastic job, congrats!
I download big files via unstable connections and as such, corrupt downloads is a priority. it is cumbersome to manually paste the MD5 hash every time I start the download. Could you please accept one or both of these two suggestions:
(i) if the file to be downloaded is hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.ext then FDm could try to automatically fetch hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.ext.md5 then hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.md5 then hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/md5sum ... in that order ... and parse the MD5 hash inside for the file in question.
(ii) Using url MD5 fingerprints which are growing in popularity, i.e. the md5 sum would appear in the URL itself like so: hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.ext#!md5!F17BCD90E7C12CC5A35810B94D70BEFE
These would be great features to have and would automate the re-download of corrupted files, saving us a lot of time.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers.
FDM is growing on me. It has several features that other downloaders struggle with or are missing completely. You're doing a fantastic job, congrats!
I download big files via unstable connections and as such, corrupt downloads is a priority. it is cumbersome to manually paste the MD5 hash every time I start the download. Could you please accept one or both of these two suggestions:
(i) if the file to be downloaded is hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.ext then FDm could try to automatically fetch hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.ext.md5 then hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.md5 then hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/md5sum ... in that order ... and parse the MD5 hash inside for the file in question.
(ii) Using url MD5 fingerprints which are growing in popularity, i.e. the md5 sum would appear in the URL itself like so: hxxp://blabla.com/path/to/file.ext#!md5!F17BCD90E7C12CC5A35810B94D70BEFE
These would be great features to have and would automate the re-download of corrupted files, saving us a lot of time.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers.