(Sug) Handle BitComet Tracker-URLs (bc://bt)

[StN]

Hi. I would like deluge being able to start torrents from .torrent links in BitComet format.
The tracker url is not given in plain text, but decrypted as bc://btXYZABCETC.

It's wide spread in Asian world giving the trackers url ONLY in BCTP format.

Edit:
Okay, it's not a decrypted link, but initiating the download trackerless.
http://www.p2pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=16992

[andar]

Hi. I would like deluge being able to start torrents from .torrent links in BitComet format.
The tracker url is not given in plain text, but decrypted as bc://btXYZABCETC.

It's wide spread in Asian world giving the trackers url ONLY in BCTP format.

Edit:
Okay, it's not a decrypted link, but initiating the download trackerless.
http://www.p2pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=16992

I've added Magnet URI support into trunk.. I have no idea what this bitcomet thing is? Why don't they just use standard magnet uri links?

[StN]

I guess it's a way of binding people to bitcomet. Like redwood marketing strategy.

If I look at the client list of my peers - eighty per cent using bc.
Would be nice if s.o. found out how to convert these urn into magnet.

[johnnyg]

from that p2pforum post, the bc link is just a way of searching DHT for a torrent file.
the actual link looks like

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btcp://||task|url encoded name of file|size in bytes of file|hash of file|/

[StN]

I tried the latest (zip) WIN-Version of BitComet under wine - works.

I, too, had the impression the trackerfile was downloaded from some url, not from any seeders.
BitComet saves this file in a directory /BitComet_1.04/torrents - one then could use this .torrent-file for deluge.

[andar]

from that p2pforum post, the bc link is just a way of searching DHT for a torrent file.
the actual link looks like

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btcp://||task|url encoded name of file|size in bytes of file|hash of file|/

I'm guessing it isn't actually a file hash, but the info-hash for the torrent. If this is indeed true, then writing a bctp->magnet converter is trivial (and I have already done so). There is no documentation on BCTP and it looks like there might have been but it has been removed from Bitcomet's site. If anyone has any good bctp links for me to do some testing on, then I may be able to incorporate the converter into deluge and handle them the same way we do magnet links.

[StN]

Hello Andar. Any news?