thanks for investigating, Bram. when I say basic metalink support, I mean: get one URL from the XML, download from one source, and verify the file's checksum.
most apps that download from multiple source support metalink at this point. to get our foot in the door with other apps, I think we need to be very simple. this means less benefits to users, but we proceed with small steps...then, the main program authors (or users, once they see basic functionality) might find out about metalinks & find em interesting enough to add more features, like failover to other mirrors. many apps will never download from multiple sources. hopefully they'll add chunk checksumming support later. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Bram Neijt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some time back I looked at the download systems, like Chrome, but the > biggest problem was that the main download engine does not support > multiple sources. I couldn't find a way to add multiple download > sources, but it may be a good time to try it again. > > I'll see if I can find the time to check it out and start a new thread > on implementing this in either Firefox or Chrome. > > Bram > > PS I did a quick survey on Chrome earlier: > http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/browse_thread/thread/24de58f2c4b7785c/2c63ced761bc95e6 > but at that time I could not find a good way to hook into the download > system. Hopefully there is more documentation now or maybe somebody can > find a good way in. > > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 11:53 -0500, Anthony Bryan wrote: >> is there no one with C++ experience who can add basic metalink support >> to a browser? >> >> I think Google Chrome is the best target. they're new & developing >> their browser rapidly. >> if we can supply the code, they're review it & add it. >> >> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1751 >> >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > we've accomplished a lot, but without support in browsers, even the >> > ones w/ less users, we haven't really reached some of the people who >> > need metalink's features the most. they will never install plugins or >> > external download managers. >> > >> > so far, we have TheWorld browser. this is a great start, but we need more. >> > >> > Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, & Firefox would all be great to have on board >> > what's holding them back? not enough sites? why aren't more sites >> > using it? almost no browser support :) >> > >> > what can we do to speed things up? >> > >> > we have bounties for the open source browsers, Chrome & Firefox, & >> > they're both waiting for someone to submit patches. >> > >> > Shawn Wilsher, in charge of Firefox's download manager code, is at >> > least thinking about it: >> > "Here's what I'm thinking the right approach to do this properly goes >> > something like the following. Note that for coming up with this, I'm >> > basically thinking how we could implement metalink downloads in an addon. >> > " [1] >> > >> > http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4944688� >> > >> > http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=152871 >> > >> > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1751 >> > >> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331979 >> > >> > [1] >> > http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/9247f53da4527422# >> > -- >> > (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] >> > )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads >> > >> >> >> > > > > > > -- (( 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
