Oh, I did verify that, sorry I wasn't clear. It definitely works. On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was implicitly hoping you could explicitly verify for me that using the > OSDN url would support range requests. :) > > tor. 1. okt. 2020 09.09 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>: > >> Yes, it does. I think it will work with any http server supporting range >> requests. >> You can have multiple webseed urls in the torrent as well, just pass >> --urlList flag multiple times. >> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Does it also work with the OSDN mirror? >>> >>> tor. 1. okt. 2020 02.42 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I recall we had this discussion before about providing torrent files >>>> for release downloads to reduce the slowdown related to rush traffic. it >>>> didn't go far mainly because of resources needed to maintain separate >>>> torrent seeding infrastructure. >>>> >>>> I recently discovered that p2p torrent protocol supports webseeding, a >>>> feature that allows torrent clients to download chunks of files from >>>> standard http/ftp servers. It's implemented by most major torrent client >>>> software. This way the file is initially seeded by the http server but as >>>> more and more peers get the data the swarm takes over most of the traffic >>>> load. >>>> >>>> I tried it out and it works nicely with kicad's existing http download >>>> resources so there is no need to have separate infra for torrents! >>>> >>>> Would you be open to adding this? >>>> All that is needed is put .torrent files either on kicad website or >>>> even better, on the https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/ server next to >>>> the installers and add a link to them. >>>> >>>> I've generated torrents with webseed information for 5.1.7 here: >>>> https://forum.kicad.info/t/torrents-for-kicad-stable-version-5-1-7-win-and-osx/16609/14?u=qu1ck >>>> >>>> To do it yourself in the future is trivial, here is the bash script I >>>> used to create the files: >>>> >>>> for f in *.exe ; do >>>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList >>>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/windows/stable/ >>>> done >>>> for f in *.dmg ; do >>>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList >>>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/ >>>> done >>>> >>>> It depends on create-torrent utility that you can get by running "npm >>>> install -g create-torrent" >>>> >>>> I can also make a merge request on the kicad website if someone will >>>> upload the torrent files to the s3 server. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Andrew >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>
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