Can't add new torrents via Web UI

[bluemoonj]

I installed utorrent in an Acer easyStore H340 windows home server and registered uTorrent as a service.

I am able to connect to the web UI, but when I tried to add any Torrents via the web UI, nothing was added, so far I tried 3 different browsers, including firefox 3.5.2, IE 8, Chrome 2.0

none of above browsers work. I checked the logger

in Firefox, it shows "[22:25:56] JS error: [1] missing } in XML expression".

in IE8 and Chrome, NO error reported in logger with the same torrent files.

I have tried two different torrent files, both have the same error in Firefox, also no errors reported in Chrome and IE

I also tried both torrents with uTorrent at my local desktop (no webui), both torrents start to download immediately.

any idea what was wrong?

thanks for any help.

[Lord Alderaan]

Probably permissions of the service account.

[bluemoonj]

this service account is a member of group "Administrators", shall have enough privileges to use utorrent.

[Ultima]

Uh... why would WebUI even be interpreting the returned data as XML...? What version of WebUI are you using?

[PeraMitic]

I have same problem running utorrent on Ubuntu under wine.Web Ui i use is ver. 0.631 and utorrent is version 1.8.4.

[ParaNoja]

Hello,

Any solution for this. I'm having the same issue (JS error: [1] missing } in XML expression), using uTorrent (version I don't know, not at home atm), but WebUI says 0.361 on Windows 7.

Tnx.

[DreadWingKnight]

And what about when you use 0.362?

[pellinore]

I was having the same problem. Using ubuntu with the lastest 2.0 Beta and the 2.1 of utorrent and I can not add torrents using the webui. 1.8 works fine.

I found an older version of 2.0 ver 16546 and it works fine. I haven't had a chance to try other ones and find out which version it started not working at.

[simonbcn]

Same problem with webUI 0.362 and µTorrent Release Candidate 1 (2.0 build 17624). I can't add torrents with the webUI.

Any solution?

Thanks.

[pellinore]

Try an older version. <munched by admin - unsupported, don't replace the link>

16546 is working for me.

[simonbcn]

@pellinore thanks, but I prefer to keep using the 1.8.4 (the latest 1.8.5 gives problems under Win 7 64 bits) until they fix the WebUI that I hope will be soon.

[DreadWingKnight]

Using old uTorrent versions isn't supported.

Pellinore, this is your only warning. Link such an archive site again and you WILL get banned.

[Ultima]

@simonbcn: It definitely works from my end on WinXP and Win7 x64. Have you tried µTorrent Adder to see if it can be added using that utility? If so, is there any error in the browser's Javascript error console when it fails?

[simonbcn]

@Ultima, the webUI, included in µTorrent Release Candidate 1 (2.0 build 17624), doesn't work in Firefox 3.5.6.

I try to add one torrent in webUI but it neither adds nor fails. In Firefox Console Error doesn't show anything.

[Ultima]

Firefox's built-in error console is worthless. Try Chrome, or install Firebug and see what it says. And you haven't answered whether or not µTorrent Adder can add torrents.

[simonbcn]

I have tried it with Chromium 4.0.277.0 (35087) and Firefox 3.5.6 in Ubuntu 9.10 and Google Chrome in Windows XP, and in all it fails.

The error in Chromium (same in Chrome in Windows XP):

And, according to others in the same thread, I am not to the only one that fails it.

It fails with the WebUI version 0.361 and 0.362.

Regards.

[Ultima]

And you haven't answered whether or not µTorrent Adder can add torrents.

µTorrent Adder

[simonbcn]

I have never used "µTorrent Adder", it's for Windows? I use Ubuntu.

[Ultima]

Yeah, it's Windows... but I'm confused as to how you're able to get error messages for XP based machines, and not be able to test µTA. Oh well.

Anyhow, I don't know what to say about it not working properly under Wine -- others have reported it, but I can't really say with any certainty that it's been looked into.

[simonbcn]

I use Ubuntu 9.10 but I have Windows XP in a virtual machine (VirtualBox).

I have tried "µTorrent Adder" (Unicode and ANSI) in Ubuntu and Windows XP and it does nothing.

EDIT:

The error is independent of the operating system because it fails on both: Windows and Linux. And it is also independent of the browser because it fails in Chrome, Chromium and Firefox.

[Ultima]

Doesn't explain why only Linux/Wine users are reporting the problem. Just because you're testing it on VirtualBox doesn't mean it's actually representative of Windows -- the virtual machine still has to go through the Linux networking stack to send the .torrent file out. I'll see if I can test a Linux install and pass along anything I observe, but I can't make any guarantees.

[simonbcn]

Windows in VirtualBox works almost identically to a standard Windows.

Besides, I've used localhost in both test (Linux and Windows), so virtual machine hasn't to go through the Linux networking.

I will ask another people who uses Windows if they works.

EDIT:

I was trying to open a ticket in Trac but it's down again, so I write here:

A friend has tested it in Windows2008_x64, with µTorrent v. 2.0 b.17668 and webui.1220503364, and it fails too, but he has discovered that it works if he disables WebUI.token_auth.

[Ultima]

v0.362 WIP (2009-05-26)

* Fixed: #50 (add-file input form not token authentication ready)

So yeah. Token authentication support was fixed more than half a year ago.

The fact of the matter is, uploading is working for your friend as well on Windows. He just happened to be testing a WebUI build that has slightly broken token authentication support, but that's completely unrelated to the real issue at hand.

And yeah, Trac seems to be down again. No clue why.

[simonbcn]

@Ultima, why the version of the WebUI, which you distribute with μTorrent, is obsolete?

[Firon]

trac is back y'all. there was an outage on one of the boxes