From c0e5b5407398610210afc41367705199a2377764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Sattler <help.markus+git@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:23:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add basic check for valid data for in updateSketch (first
 byte of bin is always 0xE9) send SDK version by HTTP Update

---
 hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/cores/esp8266/Esp.cpp          | 7 +++++++
 .../libraries/ESP8266httpUpdate/src/ESP8266httpUpdate.cpp  | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/cores/esp8266/Esp.cpp b/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/cores/esp8266/Esp.cpp
index 4d9d8b033..504cf028d 100644
--- a/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/cores/esp8266/Esp.cpp
+++ b/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/cores/esp8266/Esp.cpp
@@ -414,6 +414,13 @@ bool EspClass::updateSketch(Stream& in, uint32_t size) {
             return false;
         }
 
+        if(addr == freeSpaceStart) {
+            // check for valid first magic byte
+            if(*((uint8 *) buffer.get()) != 0xE9) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
         noInterrupts();
         rc = SPIWrite(addr, buffer.get(), willRead);
         interrupts();
diff --git a/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/libraries/ESP8266httpUpdate/src/ESP8266httpUpdate.cpp b/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/libraries/ESP8266httpUpdate/src/ESP8266httpUpdate.cpp
index 118ec894f..ef48087e1 100644
--- a/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/libraries/ESP8266httpUpdate/src/ESP8266httpUpdate.cpp
+++ b/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/libraries/ESP8266httpUpdate/src/ESP8266httpUpdate.cpp
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ t_httpUpdate_return ESP8266HTTPUpdate::update(const char *host, uint16_t port, c
     req += "\r\n"
             "x-ESP8266-chip-size: ";
     req += ESP.getFlashChipRealSize();
+    req += "\r\n"
+           "x-ESP8266-sdk-version: ";
+    req += ESP.getSdkVersion();
 
     if(current_version[0] != 0x00) {
         req += "\r\n"