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Re: [APPS-REVIEW] Metalink XML Download Description Format (draft-bryan-metalink-01)

"Anthony Bryan" <anthonybryan@gmail.com> Tue, 02 September 2008 23:41 UTC

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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:41:25 -0400
From: Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [APPS-REVIEW] Metalink XML Download Description Format (draft-bryan-metalink-01)
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dave Cridland wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> 11) Section 4.2.17: Does that "type" attribute totally suck? Of course,
>> you have to have it because every man, his dog, and his pet hampster has
>> decided that only HTTP is allowed, these days, for absolutely everything,
>> leading to a totally useless URI scheme which essentially fails to describe
>> the actual resource it's supposedly a locator for. Okay, rant over, back to
>> the review.
>> ...
>
> "4.2.17. The "metalink:url" Element
>
>
>   The "metalink:url" element contains the IRI of a file.  All IRIs
>   should lead to identical files, except in the case of type
>   "bittorrent" where the IRI should lead to a .torrent file."
>
> Actually, don't do that. Don't make the meaning of an element totally
> dependent on an attribute on it. If torrent files are a special case (can
> there be more...?), then define a separate element.

I'm sure there COULD be more, but I don't know of any other right now.

Do you suggest a torrent specific element, or something generic?

Thanks Julian.

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