I've said this elsewhere, but I don't necessarily think BitTorrent support would be a good thing. BitTorrent's a crappy protocol for a bunch of reasons, and it's getting closer and closer to being a bad Internet standard not sactioned through any standards body. What's more, no standards body would ever sanction it because it lumps together so many pieces of functionality and just does not use existing standards where it should, such as HTTP, SIP/XMPP, ICE, etc.
Hopefully this ends with other clients outperforming BitTorrent in the market, but we're in danger of standardizing on a poorly designed architecture in all adopting BitTorrent. -Adam On 1/3/07, Florent THIERY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Impressive: "The first release of Chuukurai, version 1.0, is only compatible with HTTP servers. However, there is some work in progress towards the addition of BitTorrent support." This may ROCK in a close future (if they do it right) Thanks for the link ! On 1/3/07, Priyanka Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm.. i am just a passerby and have no idea if this helps > ..but i noticed that the download rate i get using TCP on an IRC chat > client are usually faster than either ftp or http transfers that i get on an > browser. no idea why that should be .. But using a java applet aint all that > bad an idea --- like this really neat downloader called chuukurai - > http://www.absyndicate.org/node/1 > > > On 1/3/07, Donny T. Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I thought of starting a different thread this discussion would be > > offtopic. > > A statement from Matthew (summarized in the subject line) in the > > Xunlei thread caught my attention. > > > > In your opinion, what could be improved in HTTP protocol to accomodate > > (presumably congestion) characteristics of TCP ? > > > > Regards, > > Donny > > _______________________________________________ > > p2p-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
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