Its unneccesarry. I don't even know metalink (not until the wiki link). Maybe someone (like you) may find this useful. But me (a common surfer) will not.
On Sep 7, 1:28 am, Ant Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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, > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-chrome-help-suggestions/browse_... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
