Annotation of embedaddon/curl/docs/cmdline-opts/metalink.d, revision 1.1
1.1 ! misho 1: Long: metalink
! 2: Help: Process given URLs as metalink XML file
! 3: Added: 7.27.0
! 4: Requires: metalink
! 5: ---
! 6: This option can tell curl to parse and process a given URI as Metalink file
! 7: (both version 3 and 4 (RFC 5854) are supported) and make use of the mirrors
! 8: listed within for failover if there are errors (such as the file or server not
! 9: being available). It will also verify the hash of the file after the download
! 10: completes. The Metalink file itself is downloaded and processed in memory and
! 11: not stored in the local file system.
! 12:
! 13: Example to use a remote Metalink file:
! 14:
! 15: curl --metalink http://www.example.com/example.metalink
! 16:
! 17: To use a Metalink file in the local file system, use FILE protocol (file://):
! 18:
! 19: curl --metalink file://example.metalink
! 20:
! 21: Please note that if FILE protocol is disabled, there is no way to use a local
! 22: Metalink file at the time of this writing. Also note that if --metalink and
! 23: --include are used together, --include will be ignored. This is because
! 24: including headers in the response will break Metalink parser and if the
! 25: headers are included in the file described in Metalink file, hash check will
! 26: fail.
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