I was implicitly hoping you could explicitly verify for me that using the OSDN url would support range requests. :)
tor. 1. okt. 2020 09.09 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>: > Yes, it does. I think it will work with any http server supporting range > requests. > You can have multiple webseed urls in the torrent as well, just pass > --urlList flag multiple times. > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Does it also work with the OSDN mirror? >> >> tor. 1. okt. 2020 02.42 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I recall we had this discussion before about providing torrent files for >>> release downloads to reduce the slowdown related to rush traffic. it didn't >>> go far mainly because of resources needed to maintain separate torrent >>> seeding infrastructure. >>> >>> I recently discovered that p2p torrent protocol supports webseeding, a >>> feature that allows torrent clients to download chunks of files from >>> standard http/ftp servers. It's implemented by most major torrent client >>> software. This way the file is initially seeded by the http server but as >>> more and more peers get the data the swarm takes over most of the traffic >>> load. >>> >>> I tried it out and it works nicely with kicad's existing http download >>> resources so there is no need to have separate infra for torrents! >>> >>> Would you be open to adding this? >>> All that is needed is put .torrent files either on kicad website or even >>> better, on the https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/ server next to the >>> installers and add a link to them. >>> >>> I've generated torrents with webseed information for 5.1.7 here: >>> https://forum.kicad.info/t/torrents-for-kicad-stable-version-5-1-7-win-and-osx/16609/14?u=qu1ck >>> >>> To do it yourself in the future is trivial, here is the bash script I >>> used to create the files: >>> >>> for f in *.exe ; do >>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList >>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/windows/stable/ >>> done >>> for f in *.dmg ; do >>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList >>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/ >>> done >>> >>> It depends on create-torrent utility that you can get by running "npm >>> install -g create-torrent" >>> >>> I can also make a merge request on the kicad website if someone will >>> upload the torrent files to the s3 server. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andrew >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>
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