As of today (Feb 11 2003) the latest version of Opera (v7.1) does not support MAGNET URI's. I and other Shareaza users have been battling that they add support...
Could magnet uris include a file size tag or something? It could be used to check that a file is the right size. It could also be used by websites, such as...
If IE and Netscape support magnets (which they do) then the burden is clearly on Opera to also support this sort of protocol. They should not need any...
Inspired by Lucas's proposal and John's need, I'd like to offer a similar proposal to fill one of the gaps left in the Magnet-URI specs. Those specs mention an...
Extremely sensible stuff. Still, I want to clarify my point relative to ... m3u playlists already support HTTP URLs, so they should also be able to accomodate...
I don't quite like it for the simple fact that new URIs are supposed to work with any markup that already understands URIs. You shouldn't have to define a new...
Justin Chapweske
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Mar 5, 2003 4:01 pm
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... But is there any existing markup/list format -- for a simple list of URIs, or possibly nested lists of URIs -- that's appropriate here? What "old markup"...
... The .M3U format allows a list of URIs. What are the limitations of M3U that you are trying to overcome? RSS is another good candidate format for providing...
Justin Chapweske
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Mar 5, 2003 4:56 pm
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... M3U ... While I like the m3u approach because it's *very* simple and already implemented, the fact that so many media players out there support m3u but...
Gordon, LimeWire 2.9.7 has fairly complete magnet handling for the "magnet" protocol on Windows and OSX. It has magnet javascript support for all platforms. ...
Hey Greg, Were you able to get your Javascript working on IE in OS X? We've been running into some issues with dynamically loaded Javascript on that ...
Justin Chapweske
justin@...
Mar 31, 2003 7:11 pm
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Actually, you're right. It hangs before completing the whole page. I expect it is hanging on the second port that it is checking. Luckily, we don't need ...
We have direct protocol support on both registered to the LimeWire client. Thanks -greg ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
For those people looking for Java based OSX protocol support, I would direct you to checkout this code: http://gui.limewire.org/source/browse/gui/macosx/ This...
Tornado itself is not open source, but we continue to look at various parts of our technology that make sense to open source, such as our FEC library and our...
Justin Chapweske
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Apr 2, 2003 6:58 pm
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... I tend to disagree, even if this is not the right place for such discussions. I mean, considering a huge body of code provided by LimeWire, it is clear...
I saw the draft/specs doc on SF, but it's rather small. Was it supposed to be like this? I see some examples but no recommendations. Where can I find info...
... The specs are intentionally simple and minimal, but they are overdue for expansion, moving a lot of the discussion and current practice into a single doc....
Hey there, i am new to magnet and i heard that kazaa will be implementing magnet links into its next version. That's why i am here. I was wondering if any...
I was wondering if any programs were ... You can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcollider if you do not want to submit it automatically to bitzi.com...
... Also note, we've placed the Bitcollider source code in the public domain, so others can add its hashing and metadata- extraction capabilities to other...
It would seem that the current specification for MAGNET-URI's does not allow referencing single resources via multiple identifiers or names? The most common...
Josh Guilfoyle
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Nov 13, 2003 11:07 am
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I ran across this thread in the Yahoogroups archives. I've done a lot of work with playlists in the past year and wanted to add things I've learned since...
Glad to hear you're building in MAGNET support! I don't quite understand your concern. I think the best way to achieve your goal of providing multiple hash...
... With the benefit of more investigation, what do you think of the "magnet manifest" proposal in message: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/magnet-uri/message/54...
... Well we're actually not giving giFT itself an awareness of MAGNET. Instead we are developing a set of extension scripts that act much more like giFT ...
Don't do away with the xt1, xt2, xt3 syntax. We don't use it but I kinda like it - and LimeWire supports it. Kazaa is going to use xt=urn:kzhash:<kzhash>...
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