would it be possible to add Metalink/HTTP (RFC 6249) support to kget?

we may have Google Summer of Code students to work on a patch for this if you will accept it & provide guidance/where to start. this doesn't seem like a full summer project, so a time estimate would be useful :)

thanks!

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6249

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