Hi, Have you thought about including Metalink support in Google Chrome? It should be relatively simple to add.
Metalink's a simple XML format for listing mirrors & checksums: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink Metalink is used by projects like OpenOffice.org, openSUSE, Ubuntu, & others. About 35 programs currently support it, and it would be great if Google Chrome was the first open source browser to include it! I know Chrome includes libxml2, and we have libmetalink, a C parsing library, which uses it (or expat). The Chromium page says that the community can submit patches for known bugs, but can we submit patches for new features? Would a patch for this be likely to get accepted? Here's an example .metalink file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org";> <files> <file name="example.ext"> <verification> <hash type="sha1">example-sha1-hash</hash> <signature type="pgp"/> </verification> <resources> <url location="us" preference="90">ftp://ftp.example.com/example.ext</url> <url location="uk" preference="90">ftp://ftp.example.net/example.ext</url> <url location="us" preference="90">http://example.com/example.ext</url> <url location="de" preference="90">http://example.net/example.ext</url> </resources> </file> </files> </metalink> Thank you, -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads PS - I have also posted about this on the Chrome Help group for Feature requests, at http://groups.google.com/group/google-chrome-help-suggestions/browse_thread/thread/95a487ac2f187667?hl=en# --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
