One of the really nice things about Metalink is that it can be used in the background, transparently, w/o the person downloading even knowing.
Metalink isn't AS useful for small files, but it adds a feature set to browsers and download agents that are needed. It's a small investment for continual gains later. It gives you a kind of safety net to easily recover from things like servers going down or errors in the file. Also, it really helps people with unreliable internet connections. Being able to automatically recover from errors in a 3 gig download when you've got a spotty connection in the Philippines saves a lot of time. On Sep 7, 2:32 am, Spicy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
