some brainstorming from Ben on http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1751#c25 about a metalink sharing site:
"Is there a site like imgur or youtube for metalinks? I'm imagining pasting a link or two into a form that generates a metalink file and hosts it at a short url. It could also help users without metalink clients by hosting a small page with a direct link to a random or nearby mirror and maybe voting buttons to signal that a mirror worked or failed. It could also generate a webseeded multi-tracker bittorrent file for those good citizens who use their uplink. This app could understand the mirror structures of a few popular hosting sites like sourceforge and automatically include those mirrors in the metalink. It could link to the best metalink clients for the user's browser/OS. It could be an appengine app. Another random idea is implementing metalinks(+/HTTP) in a lower level library such as net, so that it might be used for any resource, not just downloads. This might not be useful for small text files such as HTML/CSS/JS, but it might be useful for embedded blob media such as video, audio, images, PDFs, STLs, or large datasets loaded by javascript. CDNs may be interested in some of metalinks' features, though they may have special constraints. Metalinks may also be an easy/redundant mechanism for site-level fail-over. This is just an idea that I wanted to record somewhere on the off chance that it lights a fire under somebody." -- (( 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.
