By default, Packer will symlink, download or copy image files to the Packer cache into a "`hash($iso_url+$iso_checksum).$iso_target_extension`" file. Packer uses [hashicorp/go-getter](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter) in file mode in order to perform a download. go-getter supports the following protocols: - Local files - Git - Mercurial - HTTP - Amazon S3 Examples: go-getter can guess the checksum type based on `iso_checksum` len. ```json { "iso_checksum": "946a6077af6f5f95a51f82fdc44051c7aa19f9cfc5f737954845a6050543d7c2", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" } ``` ```json { "iso_checksum_type": "file", "iso_checksum": "ubuntu.org/..../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso.sum", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" } ``` ```json { "iso_checksum_url": "./shasums.txt", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" } ``` ```json { "iso_checksum_type": "sha256", "iso_checksum_url": "./shasums.txt", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" } ```