bently Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 does uTorrent support this type of tracker format:dht://0D141C5AC15870806A6D30983F3D66F47CDEB4AB.dht/announceI have several torrents with that type of tracker and all report Invalid URL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 uTorrent does not support that type of tracker format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hahahafr Posted February 14, 2011 Report Share Posted February 14, 2011 Could it be a feature? considerng utorrent already support magnet link (base32 encoding of the sha-1 hash) it should be easy to implement it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 14, 2011 Report Share Posted February 14, 2011 Why would it need explicit support when uTorrent attempts to obtain peers from dht on its own without it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hahahafr Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Because µtorrent doesn't know how to open a "dht://" link but knows how to open a "magnet:?xt=" one. The two links basically contain the very same information, so why couldn't µtorrent handle them the same way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Because µtorrent doesn't know how to open a "dht://" link but knows how to open a "magnet:?xt=" one. The two links basically contain the very same information, so why couldn't µtorrent handle them the same way?There's one problem with this thought. You already have a full .torrent file at this point so supporting dht:// is a waste. You are already using DHT to search for peers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hahahafr Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 No, I meant when you have such links on the internet, exactly like you can find magnet: links, there is plenty of dht:// links. Supporting dht:// links would be something really appreciated, and it should be easy because it behaves exactly like a magnet: link and µtorrent already support them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 there is plenty of dht:// links.Besides, the original poster is asking about dht:// announce addresses, which are pointless to support because uTorrent already attempts to access DHT for peers anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hahahafr Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 dht:// links as trackers are pointless, that's logical.but handling dht:// links is not, after all magnet are just base32 encode of the bin hash contained in the dht:// links, so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 And what backwater site actually uses dht:// links instead of magnets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Because µtorrent doesn't know how to open a "dht://" link but knows how to open a "magnet:?xt=" one. The two links basically contain the very same information, so why couldn't µtorrent handle them the same way?Because they clearly have different intents. Magnet URIs are used for obtaining .torrent file metadata. If your dht:// links are in the tracker list, then obviously, whoever added it meant to use it as a tracker, which would make it absolutely redundant when DHT already tracks torrents globally, and any BitTorrent client that supports DHT will already announce to DHT automatically for any non-private torrent.If you saw a dht:// link in your tracker list, then you already have the .torrent metadata, so there's no reason to treat the link as a magnet URI. If you don't already have the .torrent metadata, then well... there's already an established and working standard called magnet URIs that whatever-site-you-obtained-the-dht-link-from can just as easily use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bently Posted February 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 the only torrents I have seen these dht:// trackers on came from the Computer Science department at Stanford University for a group of lectures they released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Then most certainly they should be the ones fixing their torrents. Standards are defined so that there doesn't need to be duplication of effort, and Stanford seems to be disregarding that.The torrent community at large has already standardized on global DHT for tracking non-private torrents, and magnet URIs for obtaining the metainfo. The dht:// URLs don't do better anything that is already satisfied by the existing standards, and to top it off, it's used by next-to-nobody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktetch Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 the only torrents I have seen these dht:// trackers on came from the Computer Science department at Stanford University for a group of lectures they released.That would be this thenhttp://torrentfreak.com/stanford-university-embraces-bittorrent-081018/Let me quote from that article."there is one downside to the torrents Stanford is offering. They do not use regular trackers, but only Vuze's DHT tracker. "You've spotted a vuze-only feature, that i think is being depreciated anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 Huh. Never knew Vuze DHT used special tracker URIs... Gotta wonder what the advantage was supposed to be, since in the end, the clients that support those URIs would probably still have to announce over some global DHT anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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