# get\_url: accepting sha1 checksums

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-url-accepting-sha1-checksums/18796>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-url-accepting-sha1-checksums/18796 "2015-07-17T09:34:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_C1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mike\_C1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_C1)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-url-accepting-sha1-checksums/18796/1 "2015-07-17T09:34:45Z")

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Hi all,

Is there any reasons why get\_url does not accept sha1 checksums and only accept sha256sum ?  
The reason behind this is, that i tried seting up the ELK stack and they provide sha1 checksums on the site. So i found it a bit un-automatic having to download the file localy, verify, generate the sha256sum and add that to the get\_url arguments.

Cheers,  
Mike

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**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-url-accepting-sha1-checksums/18796/2 "2015-07-20T18:13:43Z")

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There's no set reason. There is an open pull request to add support  
for additional hashes:  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/141](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/141)

I've reviewed it -- it needs some revisions and then could be merged.  
I don't have time before v2 to make the revisions myself but perhaps  
someone else could address the concerns I raised and move it forward?

-Toshio