In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Moore Liu wrote: > Hi all, > > I am very interesting in the detailed implement of bittorrent and have > read some p2p protocol document, but I want to know more of the > technique implementation. It's time-consuming to reverse-engineering > the code to understand the design intention of it. So my question is: > > Is there any well written "Design document" we can find, which descibe > the detail technical in the code. For example: the seed format, the > algorithm of how to divide the files into blocks, how to schdule > threads, how to decide which part of the file should be receive first, > the credit system(something like that in the eMule), and so on...
You can start with the `protocol description`_ on the BitTorrent website and the `BitTorrent Economics Paper`_. .. _protocol description: http://www.bittorrent.org/protocol.html .. _BitTorrent Economics Paper: http://www.bittorrent.com/bittorrentecon.pdf Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
