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Documented Metalink/HTTP in README.asciidoc

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Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa 2011-07-31 21:47:56 +09:00
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@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Here is a list of features:
* Segmented downloading
* Metalink version 4 (RFC5854) support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent)
* Metalink version 3.0 support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent)
* Metalink/HTTP (RFC6249) support
* HTTP/1.1 implementation
* HTTP Proxy support
* HTTP BASIC authentication support
@ -278,6 +279,16 @@ read from local disk, aria2 uses the value of --metalink-base-uri
option as base URI. If this option is not specified, the relative URI
will be ignored.
Metalink/HTTP
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The current implementation only uses rel=duplicate links only. aria2
understands Digest header fields and check whether it matches the
digest value from other sources. If it differs, drop connection.
aria2 also uses this digest value to perform checksum verification
after download finished. aria2 recognizes geo value. To tell aria2
which location you prefer, you can use --metalink-location option.
netrc
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netrc support is enabled by default for HTTP(S)/FTP. To disable netrc