FWIW, these two links really helped me as well. http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html#bittorrent-protocol-extension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DHT Stumbled across them after John’s excellent tip. Thanks, — Eric Chadbourne http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/ > On Mar 11, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Eric Chadbourne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks John! > > — > Eric Chadbourne > http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/ > > >> On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:56 PM, John Abreau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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
