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Hello, I posted about Metalink a few months ago. It's an XML file read by download managers, with useful information for segmented downloading, P2P, & automatic checksum verification. Here is an example file. A real one would have multiple ftp & http <url>s... <metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/"> <files> <file name="filename.ext"> <verification> <hash type="md5">example-md5-hash</hash> </verification> <resources> <url type="ftp">ftp://ftp.example.com/filename.ext</url> <url type="http">http://www.example2.com/filename.ext</url> <url type="bittorrent>http://www.example.com/filename.ext.torrent</url> <url type="magnet"/> <url type="ed2k"/> </resources> </file> </files> <metalink> If you would like to try it out, you can download GetRight 6 BETA (Windows) at http://www.getright.com/beta6.html (We'd like to eventually have more clients on other platforms, hopefully free software). For more info & a short video of Metalink in action see http://www.metalinker.org/ . The OpenOffice.org & Fedora Core 5 metalinks are good for testing as they have many mirrors. Thanks, Anthony Bryan
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