On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Peter Pöml wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just for fun, I was looking into generating Magnet links, because it became >> possible to do this easily with MirrorBrain recently (read: some hours ago >> ;-). I read up on magnet links a bit, and I think that the following might >> hopefully make some sense: >> >> % curl -s >> "http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-x86_64/3.2/ooobasis3.2-ar-impress-3.2.0-9483.x86_64.rpm?meta4"; >> | grep magnet >> <metaurl >> mediatype="magnet">magnet:?xl=991261&dn=ooobasis3.2-ar-impress-3.2.0-9483.x86_64.rpm&xt=urn:sha1:45cbf5e329583f4758680cee6ef940f2a8092379&xt=urn:bith:45cbf5e329583f4758680cee6ef940f2a8092379&xt=urn:md5:aa54080575e6d92019af6c776f314a6f</metaurl> >> > > & should be & ?
yes, without that all metalinks (3 & 4) will be invalid >> >> However, I have no experience with Magnet links, and I might do something >> wrong. >> >> Is mediatype="magnet" sane? (It's not registered in any way, I think, but I >> might overlook something). Ant just pointed out in #mirrorbrain on Freenode >> that mediatype="torrent" should fit better, since they contain the same >> information as (linked) torrents contain. This makes more sense to me as >> well now. >> > > I think mediatype="torrent" will fit only when the magnet is urn:btih. > (Actually aria2 secretly supports this behavior) > For more general case, other than btih, then I think mediatype="magnet" > is a good candidate. If client is magnet capable, then it can parse > magnet and detect its xt it supports. <metaurl> is actually a URI to a metadata/metainfo file (like a torrent, metalink, zsync, or other file) magnet links should go in <url> I think, because the metadata is part of the actual URI and retrieves the actual file, not a metadata file which has a MIME media type of it's own. unless the magnet links actually ARE to a metadata/metainfo file, in which case it should be <metaurl> (from what I understand, torrent clients can use magnet links to get the torrent file: http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-future-dht-pex-and-magnet-links-explained-091120/ ) -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" 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/metalink-discussion?hl=en.
