soc bittorrent

BitTorrent Module - Wrapping the tracker up...

Posted by bradfordcp on July 12, 2007 at 2:42pm

Lately I have been scrambling to get the passkey portion of the tracker working. The system is designed to keep track of users even if their IP changes. Passkey also adds a layer of security to the tracker, making it almost impossible for non-registered users to use the tracker. The way the system works each user has a passkey assigned to them. This passkey is placed in the announce url of the torrents that the user downloads, (http://example.com/announce.php?passkey=).

Torrent node type nearing completion

Posted by bradfordcp on June 18, 2007 at 3:42am

So there I was working on validating the data coming into the node and I started to look into the bencoding/decoding functions that were in the 4.7 module. I started to messing around with the functions that were implemented. I analyzed the data from bdec() which returns something similar to:

[announce] => Array ( 
  [type] => string 
  [value] => http://torrent.linux.duke.edu:6969/announce 
  [strlen] => 46 
  [string] => 43:http://torrent.linux.duke.edu:6969/announce )