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Good job. Tried it with Google Pages and it works great. Thanks

Very cool idea!

I hope you don't mind, but I grabbed your source code and made a few improvement:
-Title changed to "µTorrent"
-Added: "Admin Login" setting, which is used to link gadget title to full WebUI
-Added: Show: 5/10/20/40 Torrents setting
-Shortened other option labels to avoid text wrapping @ 1024 screen resolution

http://conradpoohs.com/uTorrent.xml

If you want to host this version, I'll take it off my webspace to avoid confusing others.

Thanks Conrad. I made a few cosmetic changes and updated the version I'm hosting. The most important change was adding your name as a contributor! I don't mind you hosting it, in fact I bet your server is more reliable than google pages! But I do intend to make more changes in the future and there is no need for the code to fork. If it ever gets popular, maybe I'll find somewhere more central to host it. Thanks again.

That's an interesting idea Ultima. I wouldn't have thought of that. There's at least one problem I think of. Google won't connect to a server using a username or password and the WebUI guest account still requires that you enter a username. If that was changed it should work though.

That's why the google gadget embeds the WebUI in a frame. The javascript security model prevents it from connecting to the utorrent server directly and it can't do it through the google content fetch system because of the username. If the username was removed, the gadget could ask google to fetch the WebUI page for it and then do stuff with the result, like remove columns that don't fit in a google gadget screen area and size the gadget automatically based on the number of torrents. It could also do stuff like notify you when torrents complete and a bunch of other stuff. Just an idea

Another useful feature for doing this kind of think would be an XML description of the torrents. HTML is okay but its more difficult to parse and it's likely to change with future versions of utorrent.

Nope, I doubt that'd work, as the guest name can't be blank.

@hiddenriver: That's what I was afraid of... grr... (I don't use google.com/ig, which is why I wasn't sure ) So it doesn't work even with http://guestname@IP:post/gui/uTorrent.xml ?

Last edited by Ultima (2006-10-16 13:02:01)

Ultima: actually there's a chance it will work. I know for sure that the google gadget API does not allow you to fetch data from a username / protected site (because that was the first thing I tried!) But it may be possible for google to download the gadget xml with a username / password. I'll try that when I get a chance... I give it 50/50

Edit
I don't think it works. I was able to put uTorrent.xml into WebUI.xml and view it in firefox locally with http://user:pass@address:port/gui/uTorrent.xml. I verified that the port was open on my firewall and tried the same URL with google and it said it couldn't download it. I tried using port 80 in case it didn't like unusual ports. Didn't work I'm pretty sure it just doesn't like URLs with a username or password and I can understand why!

Last edited by hiddenriver (2006-10-16 20:00:41)

ok kill me if you want but the web ui works in ie7 and this does not anything i can do to the code ?

EDIT:
I'm hosting the xml on my own server so i can make changes

Last edited by zman3 (2006-10-17 01:18:46)

well how annoying of microsoft lol thanks

There's no way of adding a header to the HTTP request unfortunately. The only hope for IE support is Microsoft reinstating username:password@ in urls or an option to disable authentication for guests in WebUI.

This is from a friend of mine GECS @ www.bitspyder.net .... he added this to a post of mine when I told everyone about the new WebUI

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If you are going to use this syntax http://user:pass@host.domin and you use IE6 then you have to be sure that you have disabled the security that prohibits this syntax.

”How to disable the new default behavior for handling user information in HTTP or HTTPS URLs
To disable the new default behavior in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, create iexplore.exe and explorer.exe DWORD values in one of the following registry keys and set their value data to 0.
For all users of the program, set the value in the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftInternet   ExplorerMainFeatureControlFEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE
For the current user of the program only, set the value in the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMainFeatureControlFEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE”

Source : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489/en-us

Does anyone who knows how feel like adding a feature in the settings that lets you choose whether you want to display downloading, uploading, all or active torrents? I'm seeding too many to display them all, and if I were to just be able to see the active torrents, this gadget would be far more useful. Thanks!

I finally put together a site to host the utorrent Google gadget together with some instructions. The newest version is at http://thinkpond.org/content/view/12/. If you're using the old one I originally posted here, don't worry it will continue to work!