I think most extensions could be implemented using this scheme: http://nolar.com/azureus/extended.htm I think that would be a good idea, and it would save alot...
How big is the smallest metadata file for a torrent? It might be an idea to provide some instructions on how to use apache or IIS to use gzip encoding of the...
... it's only reporting to the user whatever the web server tells it the content-type is. other than that, it ignores this information, just as it should. as...
sure, if you make that specific case of encoding for binary strings. But urlencode is a widely used standard, so the advantage of using it is you can encode...
How Mike will win the battle against central trackers of Suprnova.org or Novasearch.net: Bittorrents need a central tracker. A central authority to host the ...
openminded@...
Jan 2, 2004 6:06 pm
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... Well, theretically ya. But I'm pretty sure charts at http://isohunt.com/bandwidth/Subnet-66.139.75.48.html are accurate, as I've verified the web traffic...
I added a little bit to the wiki, an Extensions section, feel free to add / change / delete as you see fit. Also, i refined the peer wire compression that i...
... I didn't write this, I think Nolar did. And I agree that it's important to define which bit it refers to. With this scheme, I think most extentions...
... Torrent files hardly compress at all. The majority of their size are the binary SHA hashes, which have lots of entropy. If they didn't have a uniform...
... No one's saying you can't use URL-encoding for other parameters. But if you specify in the standard that the info_hash is to be expressed in ascii...
... I don't believe I've seen the system on torrentaid.com described on the list before. I can see how other p2p networks can be used to distribute the...
I was wondering if I was right to change my network setting in bt shadow from unlimited to seeder when my download is complete. Because when I'm doing this,...
Hey everyone. I'm suffering from a broken router which disconnects me every 5-10 seconds. Of course it will decrease any download or upload speed horribly,...
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Jan 6, 2004 3:31 pm
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... From: "Harold Feit" <dwknight@...> To: <BitTorrent@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:10 AM Subject: RE: [BitTorrent] Digest...
... anyone have any idea where he is? alongside various improvement to save tracker traffic, much peer traffic should relocate to the clients and let the...
garyfung@...
Jan 6, 2004 8:04 pm
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... From: <garyfung@...> To: <BitTorrent@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [BitTorrent] PHP client port / main seeder /...
... It shouldn't have anything to do with the ports, but if it uses all bandwidth it'll get (without limits), and it has for instance 50 connetions, your own...
... Why does it seem impossible? I have years of experience with commuication protocols, I could draft up a BitTorrent v2.0 spec pretty quickly. The problem...
... This is not the fault of the protocol, per-se -- it supports multiple torrent uploads/downloads on a single *listen* port. Most (all?) of the client...
... You're not really saying that everyone here, even the authors and maintainers of *other* BitTorrent clients, are all incapable of writing their own client...
(This was in another post, but I felt that it deserved its own thread) If anyone has the time and motiviation to draft and finalize a 2.0 spec, and also help...