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
