xtf Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Hi,uTorrent appears to refuse requests of 32 kbyte from XBT Client. It's the first client I encounter that doesn't support this.Why does it do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjobo Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 I just had to check up the client.http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/client/It is twice as big as µTorrent and comes with a plain and ugly GUI. Looks like some kind of school-project. Why on earth would anyone prefer that before utorrent?I suggest you send a mail to the user of the client... ehm.. I mean the author. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted January 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 You mean the fact it has no toolbar and no blue bars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 @tjobo: Actually, XBT Client looks very similar to µTorrent... Those screenshots on the project homepage are probably outdated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted January 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 @tjobo: Actually, XBT Client looks very similar to µTorrent... Those screenshots on the project homepage are probably outdated.No, those are simply with the Classic Windows XP theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 It behaves like Mainline and refuses requests larger than 16kb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted January 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Since when does mainline refuse requests > 16 kbyte?http://www.bittorrent.com/protocol.html> All current implementations use 2^15 , and close connections which request an amount greater than 2^17 . The specs mention 2^17 as limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Yes, but the Mainline client apparently refuses requests of 32KB. I'll tell ludde about it, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I'm using XBT Client on a linux machine, and uTorrent on Windows. It's a real pain that I can't connect to each other with it (it's an easy way to transfer large files). In the XBT forums, they just point to THIS forum as a response to the problem, so I don't think that the XBT dev thinks its a bug on his end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Well, I did talk to ludde, and he said he's following the behavior of the Mainline client, and he doesn't seem to wanna change the behavior because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agret Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 It is twice as big as µTorrent and comes with a plain and ugly GUI. Looks like some kind of school-project. Why on earth would anyone prefer that before utorrent?Wow 260kb!? That's huge. Your forgetting that µTorrent is very small to begin with. Why would anyone use it over µTorrent? Cause µTorrent is only avaliable on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I just had to check up the client.http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/client/It is twice as big as µTorrent and comes with a plain and ugly GUI. Looks like some kind of school-project. Why on earth would anyone prefer that before utorrent?I suggest you send a mail to the user of the client... ehm.. I mean the author. :lol:For example because it does support the UDP tracker protocol.Because it has a web interface. And can be controller from scripts.And it comes with an installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 For example because it does support the UDP tracker protocol.Not a convincing point to the devs of µTorrent.Because it has a web interface. And can be controller from scripts.If you had looked around you would see that a web interface is in the works already.And it comes with an installer.Why waste space and time with an installer when a simple save to where you always want to run it from, run it, and tell it to make the shortcuts will do (and not increase the download size) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 For example because it does support the UDP tracker protocol.Not a convincing point to the devs of µTorrent.Users may think otherwise.Because it has a web interface. And can be controller from scripts.If you had looked around you would see that a web interface is in the works already.So? XBTC has one already and that's why users may have chosen or still chose XBTC.And it comes with an installer.Why waste space and time with an installer when a simple save to where you always want to run it from, run it, and tell it to make the shortcuts will do (and not increase the download size)Because that requires more effort from the user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 1.) The developer decides what goes in and what stays out, and so far users have failed to convince the developer. :|2.) Irrelevant to the discussion at hand. XBTC has one, µTorrent has one in the works, what's your point? 3.) Rubbish. If a user thinks that double-clicking an icon "requires more effort", then they should turn off their PC and never touch another technology-related item again. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 1.) The developer decides what goes in and what stays out, and so far users have failed to convince the developer. :|So? I'm not saying it should be included at all. I just said it's a reason some users may prefer XBTC.2.) Irrelevant to the discussion at hand. XBTC has one, µTorrent has one in the works, what's your point? Again, it's another reason users may prefer XBTC (until µTorrent has one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here, xtf. What_is_your_point? :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here, xtf. What_is_your_point? :|I answered the question "Why on earth would anyone prefer that before utorrent?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Hmm...so you're just trying to defend your favorite client's features (XBTC). Nothing wrong with that I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Hmm...so you're just trying to defend your favorite client's features (XBTC). Nothing wrong with that I guess. What did you think I was doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 I use XBT because it's the best client to use on Linux. It's the only C++ based and it can be control via web, which makes it perfect to use on remote servers.Perhaps someone (ludde?) can convince the author of XBT to change the code to be 'compatible' with Mainline/uTorrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtf Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=94951&release_id=393533 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osm0sis Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Release Name: XBT Client 0.6.7Changes:Reduced chunk size from 32 kb to 16 kb to restore compatibility with Mainline and uTorrent. Those clients silently broke compatibility with other existing clients and with the official specifications.interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Mainline is not compatible with its own specification? Thats rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 And neither are we, but ludde didn't wanna change the behavior because of the Mainline client... I could always try suggesting it -again- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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