[Bug-wget] [bug #47532] [RFE] support xml metalinks

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47532>

                 Summary: [RFE] support xml metalinks
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 25 Mar 2016 03:31:05 PM UTC
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Dusty Mabe
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
        Operating System: None
         Reproducibility: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: None

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Details:


If the remote file that we are trying to download via wget is a metalink xml
file then it would be nice if wget had an option to automatically parse that
file and then retrieve the target. This is the behavior of the curl --metalink
option today.

Ex:

curl --metalink
'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-23&arch=x86_64'


Maybe we could make this option be --metalink? 




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