[Kget] KGet2 multithreaded plugin

[Manolo Valdes]

El Lunes, 27 de Febrero de 2006 5:04 PM, escribió:

Hi Anthony
Yes I like to hear more about your code
is it some kind of mirror search?

thanks 
manolito

> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been reading the Kget mailing list archives & would like to share a
> project that I have been working on. It is called Metalink. (I also help
> out w/ the OpenOffice.org P2P/Mirrors distribution project which you'll see
> is kinda related).
>
> I'm excited to see that Kget has recently added support for multithreaded
> downloads!
>
> My project, Metalink makes it easy for users to use multithreaded downloads
> from multiple locations in a single click. Its pretty cool, & I think you
> guys would be interested. Basically, a users clicks one link & all the
> mirror (& p2p) locations are there in the download manager so it can grab
> segments from each location. There's also stuff like built in checksums
> (MD5/SHA-1), which I think are kinda nice. This seems to me like it could
> be beneficial to a lot of projects. For instance, at OpenOffice.org we
> encourage people to check MD5 sums, but even the people who know how to
> rarely do, much less average users. So something built in & automatic is
> much better.
>
> We have a working version on Firefox with GetRight on Windows (support
> should be included in GetRight 6 which is in beta right now). If you have
> access to Windows & would like to check it out let me know. But the concept
> is simple enough without seeing it in action. If you would like to see the
> source code (only about 3 pages) you'll see just how simple it is. I'm not
> a programmer, or I would offer to implement it myself but if you wanted to
> add it I don't think it would take more than a few hours.
>
> Please let me know if you'd like to hear more, & thank you for your time.
>
> Anthony Bryan