| lh | 9ed821d | 2023-04-07 01:36:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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. |
| 27 | |