Maintainer kuliax on 29 Dec 2006 03:25 pm
Kuliax Metalinker?
We received an e-mail from the author/architect of Metalinker, Anthony Bryan, on Monday, Dec 18, 2006 (sorry if it’s somewhat “oldies”).
He said that Kuliax may take the advantages of Metalinker, for fast, easier, reliable, checksum-verified download, as he saw our mirror servers in download.html. Anthony said that:
Downloads can be distributed between mirrors and checksums are automatically verified when it finishes. Mirrors have location and priority information to make the download more efficient.
Now, we’ve studied Metalinker, how the system works, how to do it, etc. So, we’ll start with the generator :-D, but the problem is: all sites that serve Metalinks need to add a MIME type for .metalink files of “application/metalink+xml”. We need to know each site listed in download.html, and their admins of course, allow us to use Metalinker and ask them to add the MIME type on their servers config.
For all admins of Kuliax mirror servers, are you ready and allow your server to do Metalinker?
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on 01 Feb 2007 at 9:46 pm 1.Anthony Bryan said …
Hi, thanks for posting this.
Only the site serving the .metalink file needs the MIME type, not all the mirrors. If you don’t want to set the MIME type, people can copy and paste the URL to the .metalink into their download program. (Using the MIME type just makes it easier).