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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.