bleachie Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Web seeding is a great idea, and I'm glad you added support. I wasn't able to find very much technical information on how exactly web seeding was implemented, but from what I know it only supports one file. That works fine, but I want to see a feature in the integrated torrent maker to create web seed torrents.Sorry, I only searched the forums with the term "web seeding" while "web seed" turned up some very different results. I would still like to find more detailed information on uTorrent's implementation of web seeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 It supports multiple files only if the URL to the containing directory is provided (rather than the URL to the file). Either way, it's a known request. Thanks for the feedback though Edit: Detailed implementation information is located here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleachie Posted August 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Wow, thanks for your immediate reply. I'm still fuzzy on how to make a web seed torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 At the moment, the only way to do so is to edit the .torrent file directly with a bencode editing utility, or a hex editor (though you'll need to be careful with the latter).If you know how bencoding works, then you should be able to add a key called "url-list" to the root dictonary that either points to a byte string containing the URL to the file or directory, or a list of byte strings containing the URLs to the files and/or directories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 µTorrent doesn't support webseeding with multi-file torrents yet, actually. It will eventually though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 lol um... brain fart. Thinking of the wrong version xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atkd Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Ok, I'm officially confused. Does this mean that I can make a web seeded torrent of a single file using only utorrent? However....if I want to make a web seeded torrent with multiple files, I will have to use a bencode editing utility, or a hex editor?Or....does this mean that I have to use a bencode editing utility, or a hex editor to make any type of web seeded torrent?Whew....I'm guessing the latter.... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Summary:- µTorrent currently supports web-seeds only for single-file torrents (it just won't use the url-list if there are multiple files). Web-seeding support has been completed in 1.8, and multi-file torrents can now take advantage of web-seeds.- You currently can't create a web-seeded torrent from within µTorrent, but yes, you can use some proper editing utility to modify the contents and add the url-list, and provided the torrent is a single-file torrent and was edited properly, µTorrent will use the web-seed if it finds that other peers don't have the data it needs/wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atkd Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Oh dear god - how do I do that? :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 You need to know how bencoding works (not too difficult) and edit the .torrent file in a hex editor as per the web-seeding specs described at the GetRight link up above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashnburn Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 bencode editing utility - @ Ultima - For all this talk about Bencode Editors / Bencoding Editing Utilities and requests by people why dont we have a sticky that points to some good / updated list of such Editors / Utilties. Can someone point me to any good ones or ANY that exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 There aren't really any generic, standalone bencoders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 If you're wondering why we keep referencing this imaginary "bencode editor," it's because... well, I dunno xD I can't speak for anyone else, but I guess when I mention "bencode editor," I'm hoping there is one out there (or thinking that there theoretically could be one). At any rate, there technically are bencode editors out there (.torrent file editors), but they might not be what you're looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashnburn Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Ultima - I agree that I am not thinking of editing .Torrent files but the record of the .Torrent & Data files inside the Resume.dat. Is that correct? Now how does one go about learning how to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Grab a hex editor and edit the file as described in the link I provided up above. The only way to do this is to learn bencoding :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleachie Posted September 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 will 1.8 support creation of web seeded torrents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 21, 2007 Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedogg Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 how do you add the web seed in utorrent1.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Go to the Advanced tab... put in the URL for the direct file or folder-tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhelev81 Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Hello,is it possible to webseed something from filefront >? I tried but it doesn't seem to work ... Some help pls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 .. it needs to be HTTP without cookies or authentication. Maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhelev81 Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 there must be a way anybody else ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 The minimum requirement for a web seed to work is for it to serve the file from a set URL that does not expire, and behaves well however/whenever/wherever the URL is accessed. If you can't copy a URL one day, send the URL to your friend a week later, and have it still work, then it's not fit to be used as a web seed URL.Anything that uses sessions (as FileFront does) will not work as a web seed. So the answer: no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhelev81 Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 thank u ultima Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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