[glance] Different checksum between CLI and curl

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Fri Feb 28 22:21:03 UTC 2020



> On Feb 28, 2020, at 4:15 PM, gaetan.trellu at incloudus.com wrote:
> 
> Hey Monty,
> 
> If I download the image via the CLI, the checksum of the file matches the checksum from the image details.
> If I download the image via "curl", the "Content-Md5" header matches the image details but the file checksum doesn't.
> 
> The files have the same size, this is really weird.

WOW.

I still don’t know the issue - but my unfounded hunch is that the curl command is likely not doing something it should be. If OSC is producing a file that matches the image details, that seems like the right choice for now.

Seriously fascinating though.

> Gaëtan
> 
> On 2020-02-28 17:00, Monty Taylor wrote:
>>> On Feb 28, 2020, at 2:29 PM, gaetan.trellu at incloudus.com wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> Does anyone know why the md5 checksum is different between the "openstack image save" CLI and "curl" commands?
>>> During the image creation a checksum is computed to check the image integrity, using the "openstack" CLI match the checksum generated but when "curl" is used by following the API documentation[1] the checksum change at every "download".
>>> Any idea?
>> That seems strange. I don’t know off the top of my head. I do know
>> Artem has patches up to switch OSC to using SDK for image operations.
>> https://review.opendev.org/#/c/699416/
>> That said, I’d still expect current OSC checksums to be solid. Perhaps
>> there is some filtering/processing being done cloud-side in your
>> glance? If you download the image to a file and run a checksum on it -
>> does it match the checksum given by OSC on upload? Or the checksum
>> given by glance API on download?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gaëtan
>>> [1] https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/image/v2/index.html?expanded=download-binary-image-data-detail#download-binary-image-data
> 




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