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#195 ability to use .metalink files with no download URLs
I looked through the aria2c man page and AFAICT this isn't currently possible. I have files on an HTTP server with corresponding .metalink files in the same directory (http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/deltaisos/). These have chunk checksums but only one download URL (the purpose is to allow repairing broken downloads). Is it possible to either specify a relative URL (so it looks in the same directory as the .metalink file, similar to zsync) or no URL at all, and tell aria2c to use the .metalink file together with a specified download URL? If not, could this ability be added to aria2?
No longer using .metalink files on this server. (Instead, just MD5 checksum files with rsync for repairing broken downloads.)
I think it is interesting to allow relative URI in metalink file.
I just looked into RFC5854 and Metalink3 spec, neither of them say it should not contain relative URI.
Obviously, relative URI is useless if Metalink file is not reference by absolute URI.
I'm OK to support this, but I don't know how other metalink capable client react to this.
Anyway, it is good to hear that your problem was solved;)