Question: how to obtain checksum for partial content downloaded via download_range APIs?

[yxiang92128]

Is there a way (via API itself or via http header) from the blob backend/Azure SDK to supply a MD5 checksum if we download a range of bytes stream from an object?
ie, on receiving end, if we compute the checksum and check against the checksum from the backend, we can match or dismiss the content partially downloaded?

Thanks,

Yang

[EmmaZhu]

Hi Yang,

download_range_to_stream can validate range's content md5 if :

• use_transactional_md5 in blob_request_options is set to true
• range length is less than 4MB

For a request to download a range, Azure Storage Server returns content-md5 from the response. In client side, we calculate the downloaded data's MD5 and compare it to the value returned from Azure Storage Server.

Is this behavior OK for your scenario?

Thanks
Emma

[yxiang92128]

@EmmaZhu Actually we are hoping the MD5 value to be returned to us and we can calculate the md5 in the receiving buffer and compare ourselves. Is it possible?

[Jinming-Hu]

Maybe related to #271 .

Also, you may want to disable checksum validation inside SDK by using blob_request_options::set_disable_content_md5_validation(true)

[Jinming-Hu]

We're going to close this issue because of inactivity, feel free to reopen it if you have any further questions.