here are my very rough ideas for Metalink in HTTP headers

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bryan-metalinkhttp-00.txt

briefly, it's:

  Link: <http://www2.example.com/example.ext>; rel="alternate";
  Link: <ftp://ftp.example.com/example.ext>; rel="alternate";
  Link: <http://example.com/example.ext.torrent>; rel="describedby";
  type="torrent";
  Link: <http://example.com/example.ext.asc>; rel="describedby";
  type="application/pgp-signature";
  Digest: SHA=thvDyvhfIqlvFe+A9MYgxAfm1q5=

On Jul 28, 5:37 pm, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> this is similar to some of metalink's features, but done in HTTP headers.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Henrik Nordstrom <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: HTTP Extensions for Simultaneous Download from Multiple Mirrors
> To: HTTP Working Group <[email protected]>
>
> This draft made a bit of surprise appearance in the transport area
> meeting today:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ford-http-multi-server
>
> My initial reaction is lots of obvious overlap with other work and
> misunderstandings of basic HTTP functions like ETag.
>
> Basic motivation behind the work may be reasonable however.
>
> I will try to catch the author for a more in-depth discussion shortly.
>
> Other opinions?
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
> --
> (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [http://www.metalinker.org]
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