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    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.