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"Anthony L. Bryan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <004701c6dd0b$660ca000$0201a8c0@blip>
Hi,

I think you might find my project, Metalink, helpful. It automatically
checks md5sums when a download is complete, & also uses chunk checksums so
only the corrupted part of a download would need to be redownloaded. It also
works with mirrors & P2P (BitTorrent, ed2k, & magnet). There's also
backwards compatibility built in w/ regular hyperlinks.

It is especially useful for large files such as .ISOs.

Here's some more information on Metalink:

'Metalinks makes complex download pages obsolete by replacing long lists of
download mirrors and BitTorrent trackers with a single .metalink file. As
you might have already guessed, a .metalink file is a file that tells a
download manager all the different ways it can download a file. The file
itself takes the form of an open XML standard that can list an unlimited
number of HTTP and FTP sources as well as BitTorrent trackers and ed2k and
magnet links.'
(http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/08/28/metalinks-integrated-bittorrent-htt
p-and-ftp-downloads/) 

kernel.org will be using it soon
(http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2006/09/09/metalink/).

OpenOffice.org (http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html) and many
Linux/BSD distributions are using it with interest from FreeBSD
(http://wiki.freebsd.org/Metalink).

Four download managers support it now, two shareware and two open source,
with a few more on the way.

(( Anthony Bryan
 )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]
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