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Re: metaTED - tool that makes it easy to download all of the TED talks

bne...@gmail.com (Bram Neijt) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:30:57 UT

Added it to
[link]
Bram

metaTED - tool that makes it easy to download all of the TED talks

anthonybr...@gmail.com (Anthony Bryan) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:11:29 UT

how cool, just found out about this...
.. _download TED talks: [link]
.. _download client that supports the Metalink standard:
[link]
.. _daily updated metalinks: [link]
.. _hosted on bitbucket: [link]

Metalink ID: Security Considerations

anthonybr...@gmail.com (Anthony Bryan) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:28:25 UT

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Hi everyone, & happy new year!
Here's an issue from the AD review by Lisa that I've been meaning to address.

SecureP2P from Pirate Bay people

anthonybr...@gmail.com (Anthony Bryan) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:45:40 UT

I remember reading about SecureP2P months ago, it was from at least
one of the Pirate Bay people.
originally, it used metalink. a few wks later, it used a similar format :)
happy holidays everyone!
[link]
[link]
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* Ugly test implementation for creating metadata files

Re: Please hammer the ID schema!

tatsuhir...@gmail.com (Tatsuhiro) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:20:52 UT

Looks good for me.
Great, it looks much better. Thanks.

Re: Please hammer the ID schema!

anthonybr...@gmail.com (Anthony Bryan) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:25 UT

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
how about?
elements without a priority attribute are considered to have the
lowest priority, i.e. 999999.
is the whole text confusing? I've added a few small clarifications.
4.2.8.1. The "priority" Attribute
metalink:metaurl (The "metalink:metaurl" Element) elements MAY have a

Re: Please hammer the ID schema!

tatsuhir...@gmail.com (Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:32:50 UT

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I think we should state that client should treat resources at lowest
priority if priority attribute is missing, because we need consensus
between generator and clients that client will use resources in the
order as generators expect.
I propose to add following at the end of 4.2.8.1 and 4.2.16.1:

Re: Chrome extension

maier...@web.de (Nils) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:46:40 UT

The Chrome extension system does not expose the necessary tools to
interact with the download manager.
Even it did you wouldn't be able to "reprogram" or replace the
download manager to support metalinks, mirrors, verification and such.
I do not really expect the Chrome extension mechanism to be EVER

Re: Please hammer the ID schema!

anthonybr...@gmail.com (Anthony Bryan) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:42:35 UT

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
argh, thought I did that. thanks!
I'd guess lowest if it wasn't important enough to put in there. what
do you think? we can save that for the client spec.
I noticed that too. I'm not sure, but looking at Atom schema
[link]

Re: Please hammer the ID schema!

tatsuhir...@gmail.com (Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:29:02 UT

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Hi,
I fixed the same thing in 4.2.8 and 4.2.16.
I just thought how clients should treat URL if priority is missing.
If a Metalink contains URL with priority and URL without it, should
client assume that URL without it have lowest priority or opposite?
I also found metalink:logo and metalink:origin has metalinkUri construct

Please hammer the ID schema!

anthonybr...@gmail.com (Anthony Bryan) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:36:32 UT

I just found an error in the ID schema, where the priority attribute
of url/metaurl was required.
I can only read this thing so many times before my eyes glaze :)
so I encourage everyone to try the schema out, introduce errors in
otherwise fine metalinks & see if the schema catches em.
the latest schema can be found in the updated ID at

(repost sorry) Re: metahyper.com using metalinks

sebast...@willemijns.com (Sebastien WILLEMIJNS) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:05:57 UT

yor exemple gives this
<url type="http" location="us"
priority="1">[link]</url>
<url type="http" location="us"
priority="1">[link]</url>
<url type="http" location="us"
priority="1">[link]</url>

Re: Last Call: draft-bryan-metalink (The Metalink Download Description Format) to Proposed Standard

anthonybr...@gmail.com (Anthony Bryan) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:52:54 UT

recent changes, due to last call & IETF responses:
[link]
Julian Reschke's XML issues
General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) review nits.
TT's generator text w/ ABNF. generator examples
Remove license element.

Re: metahyper.com using metalinks

sebast...@willemijns.com (Sebastien WILLEMIJNS) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:50:02 UT

Re: metahyper.com using metalinks

metahyp...@gmail.com (Danno) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:54:41 UT

Multi-file metalinks are working fine, here is example
[link] GNOME
2.16.1 files
you have to upload multiple files then generator automatically creates
metalink for all you files.
Cheers