Metalink (enhanced downloads) looking for Google Summer of Code mentor

[Ant Bryan]

(replying to an old message from chromium-dev)

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Evan Martin <ev...@chromium.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Ant Bryan<anthon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is an invitation to people from Chromium and other browser/
>> download application makers to collaborate on Metalink.
>
> This sounds pretty cool, but I suspect you know more about what is
> needed to make this work than we do, and also more motivation to make
> it happen. I think if you brought up a design questions like in
> http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/msg/2c63ced761bc95e6?hl=en
> on this mailing list you'd find some helpful answers.

thank you, yes we have a couple students for Google Summer of Code
that are interested in adding Metalink support to Chromium and one
that has made a metalink extension for Chromium.

would someone from Chromium be willing to mentor on the internals of
it? I am willing to take care of the metalink side of things.

Metalink (RFC 5854) lets download applications take advantage of
advanced features such as error repair (great for large downloads),
mirror usage, signatures, and others. Many Linux dsitributions,
LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, EVE Online, and other open source
projects use it.

Use cases:
- downloading large files (error repair) like Linux distributions,
software, and games
- downloading files available on a CDN or mirror network
- webmail could use metalinks for "Download All Attachments" instead
of putting all files in a .ZIP archive.
- downloading a whole album & creating a directory structure instead
of putting already compressed files in an archive

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1751

thanks!

--
(( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]
)) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads

[Evans Turner (Work)]

I had not heard of Metalinks before, but this sounds like something
we've needed for a long time. Especially this:

"- downloading a whole album & creating a directory structure instead
of putting already compressed files in an archive"

I can't wait!

-Evans

On Mar 27, 9:20 pm, Ant Bryan <anthonybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (replying to an old message from chromium-dev)
>

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org>
> wrote:

>
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Ant Bryan<anthonybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This is an invitation to people from Chromium and other browser/
> >> download application makers to collaborate on Metalink.
>
> > This sounds pretty cool, but I suspect you know more about what is
> > needed to make this work than we do, and also more motivation to make
> > it happen.  I think if you brought up a design questions like in

> >http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/msg/2c63ced761bc95...

[Ant Bryan]

thanks, Evans!

Metalink's been around almost 7 years, but support is mostly in
external download managers.

having the support built into the browser would open it up to a whole
lot of people who could then do all kinds of cool things. :)

On Mar 28, 8:14 am, "Evans Turner (Work)" <jevansturnerw...@gmail.com>
wrote: