Protocol Design Discussion

A place to discuss protocol design and interpretation of the protocol.

193 topics in this forum

  1. BitTorrent.org BEPs and forums

    By dosirrah,
    • 0 replies
    • 16,140 views

  2. Specifics of Announce Seeder List Transmitted From Trackers to Clients?

    By Fred_Flintstone,
    • 2 replies
    • 2,049 views

  3. Queued Seeds, scraping, rotation, etc

    By torramazeballs,
    • 0 replies
    • 6,366 views

  4. Translating info_hash in the announce request

    By NTrix,
    • 2 replies
    • 3,707 views

  5. Looking for a Developer who knows uTorrent really well.

    By fahim5001,   
    • 1 reply
    • 5,037 views

  6. Local Peer Discovery Documentation

    By Louif,
    • 9 replies
    • 21,091 views

  7. Certificates in BEPs

    By KOLANICH,
    • 0 replies
    • 3,693 views

  8. number of connections between peers

    By dandroid,   
    • 1 reply
    • 5,324 views

  9. info_hash structure?

    By shimmy,
    • 1 reply
    • 2,674 views

  10. multiple ISP links

    By Death_Master,
    • 4 replies
    • 7,666 views

  11. What is the minium time to re-scrape a tracker for a different hash?

    By johnthexiii,
    • 5 replies
    • 3,390 views

  12. UDP limitations

    By keymone,
    • 1 reply
    • 6,560 views

  13. calculate info hash

    By networkinfo,
    • 7 replies
    • 11,422 views

  14. Moving tracker announce with HTTP to UDP

    By btbot,
    • 1 reply
    • 5,120 views

  15. What api/sdk/lib uTorrent use under Windows for opening port with uPnP

    By Gonzer,
    • 1 reply
    • 4,392 views

  16. "Queued Seed" forever 1 2 3

    By Timwi,
    • 53 replies
    • 106,836 views

  17. Sequential torrent

    By e1673445,
    • 7 replies
    • 10,546 views

  18. "IP/Hostname to report" not shown in tracker REQUEST?

    By rhuang,
    • 2 replies
    • 7,151 views

  19. How does a magnet link work? (first IP to connect)

    By Seyss,
    • 11 replies
    • 27,153 views

  20. some ideas

    By KOLANICH,
    • 1 reply
    • 3,935 views

  21. ISP - a torrent friendly network

    By lorenz_esz,
    • 3 replies
    • 6,480 views

  22. UDP Hole punching functional details

    By madmax77,
    • 1 reply
    • 9,315 views

  23. Automatic Port Mapping

    By bengaluriga,
    • 1 reply
    • 15,934 views

  24. Calculate (sha1) "pieces" when creating torrent file

    By macb6497,
    • 14 replies
    • 17,443 views

  25. bittorent is to fast can't get online when using it

    By imnz,
    • 3 replies
    • 5,811 views