#46 Pre - Test Validity of Download
I was wondering if it would be easy to Plumb in (by
extension maybe) an external Program (shell script
probably) to test the Validity of a file.
Quite often I get files which appear to be Corrupt or
just dummy files put out their on purpose. It appears
grouped by A particular set of files (IE if one copy is
bad their's a million other ones and the related files
are also likely to be bad ).
Could a guy plumb in an external check mutella could
call that could quickly verify if a file might
concievably be any good.
If the Program/script exited Non zero, the already got
contents would be discarded, and the Host marked bad
for that file (similar to multi-host downloads).
Examples could probably be given for say mp3 and ogg,
and the user would have to set 1-> many Check programs,
with 3 arguments:
1) Extension to check (mp3,ogg,mpg).
2) Min size before Attempting.
3) Script/program location.
Of course, I would volunteer to provide a few example's
if required.
I think this would be very useful, and I think 2-3
example programs would serve most peoples needs,
meaning many non-programmers could use the feature.
Alternately, a regex could be used and evaluated
internally, though that may prove less useful.
Cheers, thanx for the great program
Eric
aksomitis@mail.com
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Doesn't mutella already support SHA1 hash checking? If the
file matches the hash, it is almost certain to not be corrupt.