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HTTP servers as torrent seeds?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-24 6:31

Is that possible? I was in the bathroom and I came up with the idea of being able to add file URLs to the list of 'trackers' or to the connected seeds, which would let the server upload to the swarm. This would decrease bandwidth strain on all sites.

Why can't this be implemented, and why shouldn't it be? It seems almost absurdly archaic to say "here's one link for one file, if this link dies the file is gone and you can never get it again." This is the internet! Everything should be everywhere and everyone should have it!

Of course, this idea isn't strapped to torrents, so why hasn't it been implemented at all? It would remove the need for 50-URL-long lists of mirrors, half of which are dead.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-24 6:43

I think it has been done, I just don't remember what it is called.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-24 9:47

It's called webseed. For more info, check out the bittornado website. Same guy that developed superseeding.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-24 10:21 (sage)

>>3
What a shitty spec. Those parameters and the int returned on error should be in http headers. Goddamned protocol rapists.

Name: 4 2006-03-24 10:36 (sage)

http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html
Just found that, looks much better.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-24 12:26

>>5
>>3
But have these been implemented.. Ever?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-24 13:13

According to Wikipedia ABC, Anatomic, BitTornado & TorrentFlux support webseeding, and Azureus and Getright support the second spec.

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