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Documented Metalink/HTTP in README.asciidoc

Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa 14 years ago
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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Here is a list of features:
 * Segmented downloading
 * Segmented downloading
 * Metalink version 4 (RFC5854) support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent)
 * Metalink version 4 (RFC5854) support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent)
 * Metalink version 3.0 support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent)
 * Metalink version 3.0 support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent)
+* Metalink/HTTP (RFC6249) support
 * HTTP/1.1 implementation
 * HTTP/1.1 implementation
 * HTTP Proxy support
 * HTTP Proxy support
 * HTTP BASIC authentication support
 * HTTP BASIC authentication support
@@ -278,6 +279,16 @@ read from local disk, aria2 uses the value of --metalink-base-uri
 option as base URI. If this option is not specified, the relative URI
 option as base URI. If this option is not specified, the relative URI
 will be ignored.
 will be ignored.
 
 
+Metalink/HTTP
+-------------
+
+The current implementation only uses rel=duplicate links only.  aria2
+understands Digest header fields and check whether it matches the
+digest value from other sources. If it differs, drop connection.
+aria2 also uses this digest value to perform checksum verification
+after download finished. aria2 recognizes geo value. To tell aria2
+which location you prefer, you can use --metalink-location option.
+
 netrc
 netrc
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 -----
 netrc support is enabled by default for HTTP(S)/FTP.  To disable netrc
 netrc support is enabled by default for HTTP(S)/FTP.  To disable netrc