Transmission

Hi,

I just noticed that uTorrent has platform specific information available for their Mac version. It says: "uTorrent Mac 0.9.2". So obviously they have found a way to not irritate the trackers with this added information.

//C

You respectively disagree with the fact that sending this info would piss off trackers and give no tangible benefit? Please, explain.

Well, there's disagreement on the "piss off" factor in this thread, so I am not capable of determining if this added information would "piss off" trackers or not ...

Could still confuse some tracker's cheat algorithms, that expect the remaining values to be random - I know that those algorithms are pretty complex and don't want to risk it. There really is no benefit to including this info.

I respectfully disagree. Well, how could I not since I started this ...

Why is that? The core is the same for all clients.


Because I am curious and would like to be able to see this information. Also, sometimes there's a pattern in behavior from software which depends on the underlying platform specific network stack. For instance for Opera the browser the client ...

Hi,

I would like to see platform specific client information in Transmission. As it is now the only thing I see is "Transmission 1.xx", not what OS is runs on. I would like to see something like "Transmission 1.xx Win" or even "Transmission 1.xx Linux/GTK".

//ceed