From 1f49780c4c50bd933c96f966d0af0482de6214d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dusty Mabe Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:40:48 -0400 Subject: docs/TODO: Add feature request for metalink in HTTP headers Closes #729 Closes #728 --- docs/TODO | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO index 652183868..9513e0975 100644 --- a/docs/TODO +++ b/docs/TODO @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3