[Discussion] Just one question

[Frank Knobbe]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:25 -0400, Seth Hall wrote:
> When we started running it, I was surprised because the additional  
> performance impact was fairly negligible.  Also, we aren't writing the  
> files to disk (I agree, that would be bad), as chunks of the file come  
> through we add each chunk to the incremental md5sum so the total CPU  
> time required to calculate the md5sum is amortized across the time it  
> takes for the file to be downloaded. 


Nice. Does it also support zipped/compressed files? If so, I assume it
does unzip/uncompress on the fly as well, without having to capture the
whole file?

Regards,
Frank



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