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Long: metalink
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Help: Process given URLs as metalink XML file
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Added: 7.27.0
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Requires: metalink
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This option can tell curl to parse and process a given URI as Metalink file
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(both version 3 and 4 (RFC 5854) are supported) and make use of the mirrors
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listed within for failover if there are errors (such as the file or server not
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being available). It will also verify the hash of the file after the download
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completes. The Metalink file itself is downloaded and processed in memory and
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not stored in the local file system.
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Example to use a remote Metalink file:
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curl --metalink http://www.example.com/example.metalink
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To use a Metalink file in the local file system, use FILE protocol (file://):
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curl --metalink file://example.metalink
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Please note that if FILE protocol is disabled, there is no way to use a local
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Metalink file at the time of this writing. Also note that if --metalink and
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--include are used together, --include will be ignored. This is because
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including headers in the response will break Metalink parser and if the
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headers are included in the file described in Metalink file, hash check will
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fail.
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