On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Lloyd Prophet<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello fellow Metalinkers,
thanks for joining us, LLoyd! > I believe the idea of Metalink is to allow swarming across multiple > protocols, not choose one over the other. > Can any current Metalink client swarm between BitTorrent & other > protocols? as TT said, aria2 can. along with GetRight and Retriever. at some point KGet might be able to as well. > The proper way to handle the situation, presented by Matt, is to use > file hashes (MD5, SHA-1, or similar). > Relying on filenames is not fail-safe, due to the fact that filenames > are arbitrary. > On the contrary, the file hash will never change unless the data > changes. > > Specifying a MD5 or SHA-1 hash for the .torrent file is the best > solution. good point! don't the torrents contain a SHA-1 hash of the whole file? trying to remember...or is it just hashes of the chunks? -- (( 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
