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Could you elaborate on this? I'm not familiar with Bittorrent's protocol. Can a regular HTTP server (say, nginx) be used as a web seed without any software in
by getsat 11y ago
Could you elaborate on this? I'm not familiar with Bittorrent's protocol. Can a regular HTTP server (say, nginx) be used as a web seed without any software in front of it translating the Bitorrent protocol requests into a regular HTTP request?
- cbhl 11y agoThe trick is that the client has been modified to read the URLs in the .torrent file and to construct the appropriate range requests for getting pieces from the web seed.
- ikeboy 11y agoIn torrent clients that support it, you can simply add a webseed to an existing torrent. Works great for linux dists.
- asdfaoeu 11y agoThe torrent is making regular HTTP requests using the range header to the server. Its a feature most BitTorrent clients support.
- bentpins 11y agoSure, you don't have to own the server either. http://burnbit.com/ http://burnbit.com/ is good for turning things into resumeable downloads