[chef] Re: Re: Re: Verifying remote_file checksum

[Jeppe Nejsum Madsen < >]

Lamont Granquist 
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 writes:

> So CHEF-4502 just got merged to master last week and will be released
> with 11.10.0 and was in the 11.10.0.rc.0 released yesterday (I just
> updated the ticket correctly which was mistakenly listing it as
> 11.12.0).
>
> That should mitigate at least a lot of the truncated downloads problem
> (I *think* that it may mitigate all truncated downloads in the
> remote_file resource
> since we should be doing HTTP/1.1 and not using chunked encoding or
> anything like that which would not have a Content-Length header, but
> i'll
> admit that's getting into the weeds of HTTP further than my knowledge
> goes).  There's also still the possibility of corrupted bit flipping
> in the stream which a checksum would address (or the file being
> transferred into RAM correctly but then having RAM->disk corruption or
> whatever due to crappy RAM/MB/chipset/etc), but fixing CHEF-4502
> should knock down the probability of a corrupted download by an order
> of magnitude or so.

Thanks for the update!

Seems like it will solve the problems we've seen.

/Jeppe