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100 KB test file
Exactly 102,400 bytes of deterministic incompressible pseudo-random data.
↓ Download 100kb.bin| Filename | 100kb.bin |
| Format | Binary |
| Size | 100 KB (102,400 bytes) |
| MIME type | application/octet-stream |
| SHA-256 | ab19e27a5f390f15fab446794cdfd7db9d3dfe0630b098d3284094907048923d |
What this file catchesUpload and download size-limit boundaries. Incompressible, so transfer-encoding gzip gives no free win and measured throughput reflects real bandwidth.
Handle it in code
Each snippet below was run against this exact file with Python 3.14.4 and Node 24.15.0 when this page was built, and the output shown is what it printed.
Python
Verify the download against the SHA-256 published on this page. file_digest (Python 3.11+) reads in chunks, so a 250 MB file does not need 250 MB of memory.
import hashlib
with open("100kb.bin", "rb") as f:
print(hashlib.file_digest(f, "sha256").hexdigest())Run against this file, it prints: ab19e27a5f390f15fab446794cdfd7db9d3dfe0630b098d3284094907048923d
Node.js
The same in Node, streaming the file through the hash.
const crypto = require('node:crypto');
const fs = require('node:fs');
const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256');
fs.createReadStream('100kb.bin')
.on('data', (chunk) => hash.update(chunk))
.on('end', () => console.log(hash.digest('hex')));Run against this file, it prints: ab19e27a5f390f15fab446794cdfd7db9d3dfe0630b098d3284094907048923d
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Download & verify
curl -fsSL -o "100kb.bin" "https://files.hexaqa.com/size/100kb.bin"
curl -fsSL "https://files.hexaqa.com/size/100kb.bin" | sha256sum
# expect: ab19e27a5f390f15fab446794cdfd7db9d3dfe0630b098d3284094907048923d