[Discuss] magnet links in bittorrent question

[John Abreau]

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.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3844502/how-do-bittorrent-magnet-links-work

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?
>
> Thanks,
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> Eric Chadbourne
> http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/
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