Re: [Bug-wget] Metalink support

[Anthony Bryan]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Hubert Tarasiuk
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Here comes an updated version of the patches. I have applied some minor
> changes based on Giuseppe's suggestions posted on Github (thanks for the
> review!).
>
> Another patch is added (9/9) to move some helper functions used for
> Metalink-over-HTTP from http.c to metalink.c. They are also made
> non-static so that they can be used in "metalink_from_http" function in
> http.c.
>
> Hubert Tarasiuk <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> I have prepared a Metalink patch for Wget. The two main features are:
>>
>> - support Metalink v3 and Metalink v4 XML files:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854
>> using libmetalink parser: https://launchpad.net/libmetalink
>>
>> - support Metalink in HTTP headers: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6249
>>
>> Please let me know what do you think about the patches. Some test cases
>> are included. If you would like to test it on actual servers, here is
>> what I found:
>> - Metalink files with PGP signatures: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
>> - Metalink in HTTP headers:
>> https://download.gnome.org/apps/3.0/3.0.0/sources/
>>
>> The commits are also available via Github interface:
>> https://github.com/jy987321/Wget/commits/metalink

awesome, thanks so much for your help!

libmetalink moved to github yesterday & released a new version
(0.1.3), hopefully fixing the signature bug you came across (thanks
for reporting that as well)
https://github.com/metalink-dev/libmetalink

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