# By popular demand, remote md5 now occurs before copy transfer

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/by-popular-demand-remote-md5-now-occurs-before-copy-transfer/11650>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 7, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/by-popular-demand-remote-md5-now-occurs-before-copy-transfer/11650 "2012-07-07T13:17:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/by-popular-demand-remote-md5-now-occurs-before-copy-transfer/11650/1 "2012-07-07T13:17:17Z")

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(0.6, devel branch)

Ansible should be a lot smarter about file transfer with the copy module now.

This should help folks trying to transfer ISOs or anything big, or those that get charged for bandwidth (EC2, etc).

--Michael