On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Alex Elsayed <[email protected]> wrote: > You missed the part about Metalink files in my suggestion. They > basically name a list of mirrors (of arbitrary protocols, though > HTTP(S) and FTP are the most commonly used), designate chunks the > file can be split into, give checksums (which may be stronger than > SHA1, such as SHA512) for both the individual chunks and the whole > file, allow downloading those chunks in parallel from the individual > mirrors, and it can even include (as part of the Metalink file) a > PGP/GPG signature for the file. Check out RFC 5854 for the spec, it's > pretty damn sweet.
...but does anyone use it, and does it really make a measurable performance difference for a substantial number of users? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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