Metalinks: Integrated BitTorrent, HTTP, and FTP downloads
Here's a cool development I wasn't aware of until just now: Metalinks. Metalinks makes complex download pages obsolete by replacing long lists of download mirrors and BitTorrent trackers with a single .metalink file. As you might have already guessed, a .metalink file is a file that tells a download manager all the different ways it can download a file. The file itself takes the form of an open ...





