I said:
| Some Content-MD5 support has been in Apache and NCSA httpd's for a 
| while, but I didn't do a great job on it & hence it's turned off by 
| default.  The main problem is that it recalculates the MD5 checksum 
| each time a (static) object is requested, which makes the HTTP server 
| quite a bit slower.
Incidentally - if you get Apache 1.2 beta, it's turn-onnable just by 
setting "ContentDigest on" in your httpd.conf.  At a quick glance, it 
doesn't seem to be doing any caching, though.
Martin
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