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@ -64,4 +64,18 @@ The manifest file would do several important things:
* `aria2c https://example.com/manifestdirectory/` * `aria2c https://example.com/manifestdirectory/`
* (fetches `https://example.com/manifestdirectory/index.mf`, downloads and checksums all files, resumes any that exist locally already) * (fetches `https://example.com/manifestdirectory/index.mf`, downloads and checksums all files, resumes any that exist locally already)
* `mfer fetch https://example.com/manifestdirectory/` * `mfer fetch https://example.com/manifestdirectory/`
# Use Cases
## Web Images
I'd like to be able to put a bunch of images into a directory, generate a manifest, and then point a slideshow client (such as an ambient display, or a react app with the target directory in a query string arg) at that statically hosted directory, and have it discover the full list of images available at that URL.
## Software Distribution
I'd like to be able to download a whole tree of files available via HTTP resumably by either HTTP or IPFS/BitTorrent without a .torrent file.
## Filesystem Archive Integrity
I use filesystems that don't include data checksums, and I would like a cryptographically signed checksum file so that I can later verify that a set of archive files have not been modified, none are missing, and that the checksums have not been altered in storage by a second party.