[Request] Add New Torrents by Info Hash Only

Feature requests not specific to either the Mac OS X or GTK+ versions of Transmission
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MumenRAIDA
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[Request] Add New Torrents by Info Hash Only

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Quick Suggestion:

It would be nice if we could initiate new torrents by pasting their info hash into the Torrent Address box [Command + U] and have them looked up by DHT.

For example, pasting the following info hash into the Torrent Address window returns an error:

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3DFAB5F74CA0F64DAA51B06C9A6A625644B54FC3
This is because Transmission tries to parse the hash as http://www.3DFAB5F74CA0F64DAA51B06C9A6A ... 54FC3.com/ instead of as a magnet link. However, simply prefixing it with magnet:?xt=urn:btih: will make the Torrent Address window accept it just fine if DHT-lookup is enabled, as follows:

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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3DFAB5F74CA0F64DAA51B06C9A6A625644B54FC3
My suggestion is to allow the Torrent Address box accept 40-character DHT info hashes and automatically parse them into a simple valid magnet link by prefixing them with magnet:?xt=urn:btih:. This feature would allow users to initiate torrents from trackers who provide DHT info hashes without having to download a magnet file, making the process faster and more secure. If you want to see an example of this feature in action, the Tixati client provides this functionality by default.

Thanks!
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