Thanks for adding Metalink to FDM! I'm very happy to be able to use them!

I have a few favors to ask.

1) Could you list Metalink on the features page? Otherwise, most people won't know it's been added

2) It would be nice if you could add downloads to your queue with local .metalinks with

File -> Import -> Import list of downloads

Right now the choices are *.txt and *.xml

3) Some Metalinks list multiple files.
<files>
<file>
<file>
etc

Right now, I believe only the first file is added to the queue.

I would add a link, but I think this msg would be marked as spam. There are some on the metalink site. Some Metalinks at metalink.packages.ro contain them under a /collections/ subdir.

4) Most Metalinks contain chunk checksums. Like those included in torrents, they allow downloads to be automatically repaired. All Metalinks at metalink.packages.ro contain them.

5) Some Metalinks contain directory information

<file name="squid-2/md5s.txt">

In this case, a "squid-2" directory would be created, with a file called "md5s.txt"

Please support the following in Metalink.
Multiple File support
magnet
SHA-256 Checksums
Piece Checksums
If the any of the features is already in the latest version of FDM than please update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink

shameless bump.

By the way, be really careful about security with the metalink directory info. You know, we don't want a metalink with <file name="..\..\..\..\..\Windows\system32\somecriticalfile.dll> causing any trouble.

Anonymous wrote:shameless bump.

By the way, be really careful about security with the metalink directory info. You know, we don't want a metalink with <file name="..\..\..\..\..\Windows\system32\somecriticalfile.dll> causing any trouble.

Indeed.

a draft of the updated Metalink spec is at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink ... sion/files

it would be great to see support for automaticly fixing downloads w/ errors in FDM using chunk checksums from Metalinks!

0.1 Changes in the Third Edition

This third edition of the Metalink 3.0 Specification contains mainly clarifications, except for the change to using RFC 3339 for dates & times (4.2.1.3), changes to tags (4.3.4), and deprecating unused or underspecified elements (4.3.8 and 4.3.17), and an explicit example of extending Metalink with XML namespaces (4.4).

can anyone tell me how to use metalinks in FDM?

I don't see it anywhere in the program interface, the help file or the website.

klu9 wrote:can anyone tell me how to use metalinks in FDM?

I don't see it anywhere in the program interface, the help file or the website.

send a URL of a metalink (like http://www.metalinker.org/samples/OOo/O ... e.metalink for example) to FDM.

it should pick it up automatically.