Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks John! — Eric Chadbourne http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/
> On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:56 PM, John Abreau <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi All, > > 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? > > 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, > > — > Eric Chadbourne > http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/ > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
