Metalink Downloader (Chrome extension) small bugs, & a chance to help

[Anthony Bryan]

Metalink Download, the Chrome extension that Sundaram worked on for
GSOC, has been a resounding success. it has about 4,000 users right
now & gives Chrome people a chance to try out metalink downloads.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jnpljlobbiggcdikagmiepniibjdinap

Sundaram is pretty busy with school right now tho, & there are a couple of bugs.

the most important ones (27, 31) are related to downloads showing 100%
complete (or more :) but still downloading or not actually being
finished.

http://code.google.com/p/metalink-chrome-extension/issues/list

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[Bram Neijt]

I'd be happy to help and I'll contact Sundaram for information on submitting patches.

Greets,

Bram

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[Anthony Bryan]

thanks, Bram!

you & Neil have commit access...

https://code.google.com/p/metalink-chrome-extension/source/checkout

[Anthony Bryan]

the previous fix doesn't seem to work.

it shows 100% but still shows downloading, and hangs there.
then the download speed slowly drops, but the download never finalizes

I'm seeing it with fairly high priority downloads like LibreOffice. at
first I thought it might be related to the large file size but even
this 9 MB file never finishes.

http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.6.5/deb/x86/LibO_3.6.5_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_en-US.tar.gz.meta4

http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.6.5/mac/x86/LibO_3.6.5_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg.meta4

can anyone test/help?

[Anthony Bryan]

well, first I would install the extension in Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/metalink-downloader/jnpljlobbiggcdikagmiepniibjdinap

source code is here: http://code.google.com/p/metalink-chrome-extension/

then I would test the 2 links I gave & see if either will finish
downloading for you.

smaller
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.6.5/deb/x86/LibO_3.6.5_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_en-US.tar.gz.meta4

larger
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.6.5/mac/x86/LibO_3.6.5_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg.meta4

then I would test other small metalinks like
http://www.metalinker.org/samples/abiword-setup-2.4.6.exe.metalink

which doesn't seem to work for me either!

I guess the problem is larger than I thought!

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Navie Huynh <quah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am not sure if I can solve it but I will try to look into the problem. At
> least I can help with testing :)
> Any suggestion on where I should I start first? For e.g: Metalink documents
> etc,
> -Navie

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