[Discuss] magnet links in bittorrent question

[eric.chadbourne at icloud.com (Eric Chadbourne)]

FWIW, these two links really helped me as well.

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html#bittorrent-protocol-extension

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DHT

Stumbled across them after John?s excellent tip.

Thanks,

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Eric Chadbourne
http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/


> On Mar 11, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com> wrote:
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> Exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks John!
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>> On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:56 PM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
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>> This url seems to explain how they work. Essentially, there's a hardwired address that's used to bootstrap a cache of nearby peers if it doesn't yet know of any peers. 
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>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3844502/how-do-bittorrent-magnet-links-work
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>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
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>> My stumbling block is magnet links.  I don?t see any PHP libraries that can do what I want (including the one I wrote long ago, they all seem to use announce urls and torrent files) so I will just write my own.  But I really don?t know where to start.  Sites like this appear to be ancient:  http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/  Any tips to something more fresh and with more technical detail?
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>> I want to write my own bittorrent tracker from scratch in PHP.  It will not upload or download anything.  Merely tracks torrents submitted via magnet link.  What do you think?  Has somebody already done this under a free software license?
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>> http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/
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