Unable to parse magnet URI

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I use 2.2 on W7. Ordinary broadband (no VPN, etc). Only Windows firewall is active, and it has the usual exception for uTorrent.

I tried a magnet URI for the first time today and found that I received the above error. Any magnet URI has the same issue. I didn't find a previous thread on this, with the possible exception of this one, which is more about DHT:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=541550

DHT is active here with many nodes.

I asked a friend to try magnet URIs with 2.2 and he had the same problem.

uTorrent works fine otherwise.

Any ideas?

[DreadWingKnight]

Do you have example magnets for us to try?

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http://www.freebase.be/file.php?name=CDBurnerXP

or the ones here:

http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html

I've been trying them all over the place. Nothing works yet.

[DreadWingKnight]

Those magnets are not torrent magnets.

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I'm afraid that you lost me. There are non-torrent magnets? The OpenOffice one, for example, is in a section called "BitTorrent Links."

[DreadWingKnight]

Torrent magnets were an afterthought in the grand scheme of things when it comes to magnet links.

And I already know about the ones at openoffice, and no they aren't torrent links.

[rseiler]

OK, good to know. I think some of these sites need to be a little more specific in what they're "magneting." I tend to forget that there are older forms of P2P out there.

Finally, I just did a search to find some that are 100% sure to be torrent magnets, and they worked.