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| author | Dusty Mabe <dusty@dustymabe.com> | 2016-03-25 12:40:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-03-25 22:19:20 +0100 |
| commit | 1f49780c4c50bd933c96f966d0af0482de6214d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 031a37d0786af2e43560db90b016cfe782e805e2 | |
| parent | e04f5c576d63a6606fd08964028763d90bb9d9f7 (diff) | |
docs/TODO: Add feature request for metalink in HTTP headers
Closes #729
Closes #728
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/TODO | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ 17.10 improve how curl works in a windows console window 17.11 -w output to stderr 17.12 keep running, read instructions from pipe/socket + 17.13 support metalink in http headers 18. Build 18.1 roffit @@ -756,6 +757,19 @@ that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs. invoke can talk to the still running instance and ask for transfers to get done, and thus maintain its connection pool, DNS cache and more. +17.13 support metalink in http headers + + Curl has support for downloading a metalink xml file, processing it, and then + downloading the target of the metalink. This is done via the --metalink option. + It would be nice if metalink also supported downloading via metalink + information that is stored in HTTP headers (RFC 6249). Theoretically this could + also be supported with the --metalink option. + + See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6249 + + See also https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2015-06/msg00034.html for + an implematation of this in wget. + 18. Build 18.1 roffit |