For the first time I used a magnet link. Curious about how it works, I looked up the specs and didn't find any answers. The wiki says xt means "exact topic" and is followed by the format (btih in this case) with a SHA1 hash. I saw base32 mentioned,…
If I have a torrent w/o any trackers in it, and I just started a bittorent client so I have no peers yet...how do I know who to first connect with in the DHT? It seems like I would have to know at least ONE node in the DHT to get started....
I am looking for a tutorial/blog post on how to implement bittorrent protocol step by step.
How it works? How do you make requests to peers? and talk to trackers.
I do not mind the programming language (java,ruby,perl,c#)
I am trying to implement a bittorrent tracker in Laravel. However, I am stuck at the moment as the download won't start. There is one peer which it appears to be seeding and I am 100% sure that it is connectable. But, when I run a second client on a…
I started to explore the option of connecting with other using a p2p connection, so I coded a simple socket program in JAVA for android devices in which the users can share simple messages p2p (I didn't have any idea about NAT then). I got to know…
Are there any decent BitTorrent libraries for Java? I need to program a simple torrent client, but it would be great if I didn't have to write everything from scratch.
I'm trying to use the BEncoding ObjC class to decode a .torrent file.
NSData *rawdata = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:@"/path/to/the.torrent"];
NSData *torrent = [BEncoding objectFromEncodedData:rawdata];
When I NSLog torrent I get the…
There isnt much more to add. Is it possible to build a torrent client using only HTML and JavaScript. You can not use things like Java, ActiveX, NaCl... If yes, please give a high level description.
I dont have much knowledge about front end dev,…
I am interested in understanding the different approaches to handling large file uploads in a Rails application, 2-5Gb files.
I understand that in order to transfer a file of this size it will need to be broken down into smaller parts, I have done…
I am not very clear about the idea of wire-level protocols. I heard BitTorrent uses it and read that a wirelevel protocol can be considered an opposite of API. I read RMI calls can be considered wirelevel protocols but am still a little confused.…
How to write a simple bittorrent application. Something like a "hello world" using a bittorrent library, I mean a simplest of the application to understand the working of bittorrent. I would prefer a python or a C/C++ implementation, but it can be…
Is there a BitTorrent client written completely (I mean completely) written in C# ?
I am aware of the BitTorrent clients written in mono, I absolutely love it.
Are there any other opensource BitTorrent clients other than MonoTorrent & BitSharp…
I know about NAT traversal and about STUN, TURN and ICE and its use. I want to know whether these are implemented in peer to peer file sharing application like bittorrent. Whether trackers facilitate peers behind NATs to communicate with each other…
I've been trying to understand the torrent-magnet technology, but I can't seem to figure out how you get connected to the first peer when opening a magnet link.
When you get a magnet link like below, it contains no initial peer - only the BitTorrent…
Is there a Python BitTorrent library that just works?
I need to tinker around with BitTorrent protocol for a research project and I don't want to reinvent the wheel and write my own implementation of the protocol (and neither I am capable of doing…
