Re: [Bug-wget] Fwd: [GSoC] Extend concurrency support in Wget

[Yousong Zhou]

On 5 April 2014 17:28, Jure Grabnar <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>
>> >
>> > That's true. "type" is currently only used to filter out types which
>> > Wget
>> > doesn't support.
>> > Do you think parsing it ("type") is irrelevant?
>>
>> IMHO, if it will not be used in the near future, then better document
>> or remove it.
>
>
> I tried removing elect_resources() (essentially removing "type" attribute)
> and it mostly works.
> It fails when "bittorrent" url resource has top priority. In this case it
> HTTP downloads what looks to me like a tracker info.
> Since checksum differs from original file (extracted from metalink file)
> download fails.
>
> I also merged two metalink files (header from the first file and resources
> from the second file) and Wget crashes. I found out there are some issues
> with temporary files.
>
> I do believe checking types is more fail-safe since these issues do not
> occur there. At least "bittorrent" resources have to be eliminated
> beforehand or make Wget somehow aware of them.

Yes, I agree that the parsing is needed for filtering out schemes like
ed2k and bittorrent.

                yousong