It's still possible for data to be silently corrupted before it hits the HTTPS server [1]. After dealing with a similar issue that corrupted data silently, but

It's still possible for data to be silently corrupted before it hits the HTTPS server [1]. After dealing with a similar issue that corrupted data silently, but still had valid checksums, I tend to not trust implicit checks. (My example wasn't an HTTPS specific issue, but it in theory could still happen with HTTPS). [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34610581/is-it-necessary-to-verify-checksum-when-data-is-sent-over-https https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34610581/is-it-necessary...