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by runeks 4264 days ago
Would certainly be nice to avoid tons of different href_sha256, href_sha512, href_sha3-512 etc. attributes.

But the browser supporting identifying files via hashes is vastly different from it fetching files via BitTorrent.

I think it makes more sense to pursue each separately. Even though magnet URI support will deprecate any existing implementation of hash support.