Private tracker login

[BLu]

A nice little page where you list the announce url of the tracker; the login page for the tracker; username; password. and when a torrent is started and you aren't allready logedin it will automaticaly log you in. This is most useful to people with dynamic ips who need to login often to make sure the ip is being reported correctly(with out locking the ip using the "IP to report to tracker:" option. Its easy to do, and useful to people like me.

[Ultima]

I highly doubt that this feature can come to fruition... there are too many ways for a server to require login. NTLM? .htaccess? Database? Some kind of simple server script?

[BLu]

Or uTorrent can just go to the login page in a "browser" and use the form inputs to put in the username and password. Firexox does it with the search box. uTorrent does it with the search box.

Edit, uTorrent doesn't use the form inputs, it use $_GET[]

An example

# Mozilla/Google plug-in by amitp+mozilla@google.com

<search 
   name="Google"                                  //The name
   description="Google Search"
   method="GET"                                   //Wether the search use $_GET[] or $_POST[]
   action="http://www.google.com/search"          //The page to send the input to
   update="http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.src"
   updateCheckDays=1   
   queryEncoding="utf-8"
   queryCharset="utf-8"
>

<input name="q" user>
<inputnext name="start" factor="10">
<inputprev name="start" factor="10">
<input name="ie" value="utf-8">
<input name="oe" value="utf-8">

<interpret 
    browserResultType="result" 
    charset = "UTF-8"
    resultListStart="<!--a-->" 
    resultListEnd="<!--z-->" 
    resultItemStart="<!--m-->" 
    resultItemEnd="<!--n-->"
>
</search>

[Xilon]

Just for the record Firefox doesn't support the POST method

I really don't see why this should be uTorrent's job. If uTorrent supports this (not sure) then just get a dyndns or my-ip account and use that address as the "report to tracker" address and have the address be automatically updated. That should solve the problem.

I definitely don't want to see uTorrent turning into a browser not only because there's no need but also because that would be mean that it would be more tied in with Windows or the IE core.

[BLu]

Who said anything about a browser? I just said send the information to the page, it already does that with the search box.

[chaosblade]

And who's to say uTorrent can guess what the form inputs are ? There could be literally thousends of different options to match every diff. private site's login script.

[NiteShdw]

I had thought of this before for my tracker. It would be easy to implement with a PHP tracker, but much harder with something like BNBT or XBT. Someone would ahve develop some standard and ask all private trackers to implement it.

[chaosblade]

Which i hardly see, unless it goes into TBSource, i believe that is what most priv. trackers base off. Even then i dont see all the private trackers adapting for the general good of the rest of the BT community.

[splintax]

You could always just do something like what the Opera search.ini uses...

So it says "input configuration" and you enter..

http://mytracker.com/login.php?username=%u&password=%p

or however your "private tracker" works. Then µTorrent will convert %u and %p to the username and password you enter.

FYI, the syntax for a tbsource-based site is, afaik:

http://www.site.com/takelogin.php?username=%u&password=%p

[Animorc]

I doubt that any tracker uses _GET as loginmethod. Could be wrong though.

[chaosblade]

I dont really see why your bittorrent client should replace your webbrowser.

All private trackers ive seen either use ip-allowed base (which means just login once with the same ip on the webpage) or a passkey in the torrent itself.

[True]

Private trackers are not a part of the BitTorrent specification. As such, I sincerely hope this is never considered for this, or any other decent client - implementation would be difficult enough, since it is tracker-based and differs depending on code and implementation, rather than a standards-based approach. I also hope it never becomes a standard