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===========================
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client_test example program
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===========================
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Client test is a, more or less, complete bittorrent client. It lacks most
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settings and you can't start or stop torrents once you've started it. All
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the settings are hardcoded. The commandline arguments are::
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client_test <filename1.torrent> <filename2.torrent> ...
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You can start any number of torrent downloads/seeds via the commandline.
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If one argument starts with ``http://`` it is interpreted as a tracker
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announce url, and it expects an info-hash as the next argument. The info-hash
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has to be hex-encoded. For example: ``2410d4554d5ed856d69f426c38791673c59f4418``.
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If you pass an announce url and info-hash, a torrent-less download is started.
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It relies on that at least one peer on the tracker is running a libtorrent based
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client and has the metadata (.torrent file). The metadata extension in
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libtorrent will then download it from that peer (or from those peers if more
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than one).
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While running, the ``client_test`` sample will look something like this:
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.. image:: client_test.png
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The commands available in the client are:
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2006-06-11 15:50:49 +02:00
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* ``q`` quits the client (there will be a delay while the client waits
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for tracker responses)
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* ``l`` toggle log. Will display the log at the bottom, informing about
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tracker and peer events.
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* ``i`` toggles torrent info. Will show the peer list for each torrent.
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* ``d`` toggle download info. Will show the block list for each torrent,
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showing downloaded and requested blocks.
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* ``p`` pause all torrents.
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* ``u`` unpause all torrents.
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* ``r`` force tracker reannounce for all torrents.
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* ``f`` toggle show file progress. Displays a list of all files and the
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download progress for each file.
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The list at the bottom (shown if you press ``d``) shows which blocks has
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been requested from which peer. The green background means that it has been
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downloaded. It shows that fast peers will prefer to request whole pieces
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instead of dowloading parts of pieces. It may make it easier to determine
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which peer that sent the corrupt data if a piece fails the hash test.
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