You can start any number of torrent downloads/seeds via the commandline. If one argument starts with http:// it is interpreted as a tracker announce url, and it expects an info-hash as the next argument. The info-hash -has ti be hex-encoded. For example: 2410d4554d5ed856d69f426c38791673c59f4418. +has to be hex-encoded. For example: 2410d4554d5ed856d69f426c38791673c59f4418. If you pass an announce url and info-hash, a torrent-less download is started. It relies on that at least one peer on the tracker is running a libtorrent based client and has the metadata (.torrent file). The metadata extension in diff --git a/docs/client_test.rst b/docs/client_test.rst index d21151bbb..315843803 100755 --- a/docs/client_test.rst +++ b/docs/client_test.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ the settings are hardcoded. The commandline arguments are:: You can start any number of torrent downloads/seeds via the commandline. If one argument starts with ``http://`` it is interpreted as a tracker announce url, and it expects an info-hash as the next argument. The info-hash -has ti be hex-encoded. For example: ``2410d4554d5ed856d69f426c38791673c59f4418``. +has to be hex-encoded. For example: ``2410d4554d5ed856d69f426c38791673c59f4418``. If you pass an announce url and info-hash, a torrent-less download is started. It relies on that at least one peer on the tracker is running a libtorrent based client and has the metadata (.torrent file). The metadata extension in