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BobbyWatson
08-06-2008, 11:37 AM
I have just moved across to using downloadstudio as my download manager because orbit failed to answer questions or fix my bugs. I love the product- so far, but I do have a feature request.

Sometimes I would like to be able to verify the correctness of my downloads against a MD5 hash. I can't find any information in downloadstudio about this, is this a feature I might expect in a future version?

I hope to get a response! Thank you.

Brent
08-06-2008, 01:03 PM
Thanks for your thoughts on DownloadStudio.

Validating MD5 (as well as other hash verification algorithms), is one of the new features we plan to implement in the future.

ChrisAsh
08-07-2008, 05:10 PM
How about metalinks (http://www.metalinker.org/)?

Brent
08-08-2008, 08:21 AM
We are aware of metalinks. While they are not yet common, we plan to support them in an upcoming version. They are a great idea and a very good system for making downloads more reliable.

antbryan
09-04-2008, 02:48 AM
We are aware of metalinks. While they are not yet common, we plan to support them in an upcoming version. They are a great idea and a very good system for making downloads more reliable.

We're currently working on an Internet Draft for the IETF.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalink-01

You can make public comments or just follow along on discuss@apps.ietf.org or Applications Review List <apps-review@ietf.org>.

Paul
09-04-2008, 09:15 AM
Thanks for the heads-up on the draft spec. We'll make sure we read through it so we're compliant. I'll contact you when we have a public release ready so you can comment on our implementation.

Thanks again,

Paul Schumann.