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Bug 121591

Summary: Pls add detailed filesizes and md5sums to download pages
Product: installer Reporter: jcatchpoole <jcatchpoole>
Component: CodeAssignee: dlipin <dlipin>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker CC: jpirek, jrojcek, olangr
Priority: P3 Keywords: USABILITY
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description jcatchpoole 2007-11-09 15:04:26 UTC 
We (webteam, webmaster@) quite often get mails from users about downloaded bits not working, ie they download NB and it
is corrupt.  The typical first reaction is that the file on the site is corrupt, whereas in 99% of cases the live file
is fine but the download failed somehow.

The best way to confirm where the problem is is usually by comparing exact filesizes and md5sums of the files.  Without
them the user cannot check for themselves if they have an exact copy of the file on the website.

Currently on the downloads pages we give only an approximate filesize (eg "20MB").  How about making more detail -
md5sum and/or full filesize, in bytes - available, eg on the start.html page ?

Thanks.
Comment 1 dlipin 2007-11-23 17:37:53 UTC 
done for fcs (release60 branch).
When it is live I`ll do the same changes for development (trunk) builds.
Comment 2 dlipin 2007-11-23 17:38:52 UTC 
->fixed