Issue 59809 - broken links to MD5 hash utility
Summary: broken links to MD5 hash utility
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Infrastructure
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: Website general issues (show other issues)
Version: 680m20
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2005-12-27 01:20 UTC by psimonyi
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:40 UTC (History)
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Description psimonyi 2005-12-27 01:20:28 UTC 
These links, from the Instructions for Using MD5 Sums page are broken:

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dpc2a/cdr/md5sum.exe (404)
http://openwebmail.lagmonster.org/download/redhat/archive/md5sum/md5sum.exe (404)
http://www.2bright.net/download/md5sum.exe (Server not found)
Comment 1 simos.bugzilla 2005-12-27 19:21:37 UTC 
Since it is mentioned here, it is better not to link directly to executable
content, like .exe files.

This is a security practice; let the end-user decide from the page they go to,
to evaluate if they would like to run this file. 

Therefore, please change the list something like:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
http://www.md5summer.org/
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/
Comment 2 psimonyi 2005-12-27 21:39:27 UTC 
That's a fine idea.
However, there is a problem with it: TheOpenCD does not list the md5 utility in
the list of programs at http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/programs/ 
I suppose there should be two links.

Also note:
- downloads.activestate.com has no web pages - it's all directory listings.
   This rather defeats the purpose of finding out about the site.
- fourmilab.ch lists the utility under "Bugs" :)

I think the list should be changed to something more like this:

Where to download the Windows md5sum checker md5sum.exe application
* http://etree.org/md5com.html
* http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/md5sum.exe (from TheOpenCD [http://www.theOpenCD.org])
* http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
* http://downloads.activestate.com/contrib/md5sum/Windows/