Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#3872 new Enhancement

Ability to add or remove webseed sources to or from a torrent

Reported by: pbludov Owned by:
Priority: Normal Milestone: Sometime
Component: Transmission Version: 2.13
Severity: Normal Keywords: http peers, patch-needed
Cc:

Description

Some huge downloads are available as torrents and direct web links. For example, Open Office can be downloaded in two ways:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ (torrent)
http://www.openoffice.org/ (direct link)

Same for Ubuntu:
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download (direct link)
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/alternative-download#bt (torrent)

It would be really nice, if the page name "peers" will have a button named "add source".

Note that it is not a kind of web seeding, since the server known nothing about the torrent, but can send us some fragments of the file(s) being downloaded.

Shareaza seems to have this feature implemented.

Change History (11)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by pbludov

Actually, it is web seeding in GetRight way with ability to add a source.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by jordan

  • Summary changed from Direct http peers to Ability to add webseed sources to a .torrent

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by jordan

This sounds like a pretty good idea.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by theonlytruth

I hoped this is planed yet for longer time. Please, please implement this feature as fast as you can. I miss this a lot. Thanks.

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by jordan

  • Milestone changed from None Set to Sometime

This isn't going to make it in time for 2.20, but I agree it should be added at some point.

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by livings124

#4139 asks for this in the "create torrent" window.

comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by theonlytruth

@livings124 This is a different idea. Here we want to add the seeds to a running torrent download if for example it is to slow. The other one wanted to add webseeds when he creates a torrent.

comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by livings124

#4678 is a duplicate of this.

comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by x190

  • Keywords patch needed added

The ability to edit webseeds is important.

comment:10 Changed 11 years ago by x190

  • Summary changed from Ability to add webseed sources to a .torrent to Ability to add or remove webseed sources to or from a torrent

comment:11 Changed 9 years ago by mike.dld

  • Keywords patch-needed added; patch needed removed
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