functional bt_upload with webseeding [#1025596]

Being completely new to Drupal, I might have misunderstood something but from what I've been reading, it looks like being able to generate a torrent file from an uploaded document was a functional feature for D5, but was disabled in the D6 port.

It also looks like the module hasn't been updated for one and a half year and as a consequence I am wondering:

- Whether or not we can reasonably expect to have this feature back in, and if so, when?

- Otherwise, if anyone has come up with a workaround. If not, being a Java programmer with no PHP experience, I am interested in bits of PHP code that would allow creation of bencoded data.

Thanks in advance,

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Comment #1

POVYLAZZZ commented 26 January 2011 at 18:15

I also was interested in this feature and I also have few solutions:

http://burnbit.com/ is suggesting to add possibility to download any web-hosted file by torrent. They are also suggesting to use button which let to download a file using torrent instead of direct download.
The button code looks like this:
```
<a class="burnbit_torrent" burnbit_file="FILE_URL" burnbit_style="BUTTON_STYLE"></a>
<script src="http://api.burnbit.com/js/button.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 
```
http://api.burnbit.com/js/button.js - contains JavaScript which turns webhosted file url to link to torrent file.
This should be pretty easy to integrate with this module.
http://www.bitlet.org/ in upload section suggest the same service. However it does not suggest any outside services for this, yet... I have contacted them and found out that BitLet is planning on releasing open-source applications of their applications core. So in time this way of solution will open.
http://www.bittorrent.com/dna this not actually a .torrent files generating solution. This website instead of giving user a .torrent file requiring a client it gives a mini downloader. This downloader uses webseeding and also seeds file form other users who have downloaded it before.

The only thing left to add webseeding feature is to chose the way to go and start working. Good luck ;)