Gemini file downloading client - a thought experiment

[Jordan]

On Thu Nov 5, 2020 at 5:02 PM EST, Ali Fardan wrote:
>
> > I would personally prefer the way we did it with FTP and provide a
> > large_file.bin.md5sum or now large_file.bin.sha1sum
>
> Brilliant, I don't see anything wrong with that.
>
> > but I would use another protocol for large files.
>
> Ok then, there's nothing to discuss further.

The client displaying and verifying the checksum seems like a way to go
as long as the host provides the checksum. Though, as Ali Fardan (I
think it was this person) stated another protocol would be safer and
easier to download the file.

Jordan