Metalink file contains several hash types of checksums, such as
md5, sha-1, sha-256, etc. To deal with these checksums, I created
abstraction layer based on lib/curl_md5.h and
lib/md5.c. Basically, they are almost the same but I changed the
code so that it is not hash type dependent. Currently,
GNUTLS(nettle or gcrypt) and OpenSSL functions are supported.
Checksum checking is done by reopening download file. If there
is an I/O error, the current implementation just prints error
message and does not try next resource.
In this patch, the supported hash types are: md5, sha-1 and sha-256.
This change adds experimental Metalink support to curl.
To enable Metalink support, run configure with --with-libmetalink.
To feed Metalink file to curl, use --metalink option like this:
$ curl -O --metalink foo.metalink
We use libmetalink to parse Metalink files.
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa