dont use wget or curl for torrent download

Feature requests not specific to either the Mac OS X or GTK+ versions of Transmission
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ejonesss
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dont use wget or curl for torrent download

Post by ejonesss »

when i download a torrent via add torrent button i get thta the torrent is corrupt but when i get the torrent via wget i get forbidden.

i have determined that the wget user agent is being blocked by some sites and transmission interprets the forbidden as being corrupt.

in a future versions of transmission it would be nice if you could design your own downloader instead of using wget and/or curl.

or have an option to change the user agent of wget.

i am using the headless transmission web interface for linux witch is part of a seedbox i use and i suspect that it is using wget to download the torrent files.

while this suggestion applies to the headless versions used by seedboxes and linux it can apply to all versions
cfpp2p
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Re: dont use wget or curl for torrent download

Post by cfpp2p »

transmission does not use wget at all, cURL yes. Fork here https://github.com/cfpp2p/transmission/releases fixes problems like corrupt https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/294 and test option to change the user agent https://sourceforge.net/p/transmissiond ... /beb7dfad/ to see if this solves your problem.
killemov
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Re: dont use wget or curl for torrent download

Post by killemov »

Some sources now have stricter access to torrents. You can only get them within an active browser session. So much for automating stuff ...
ejonesss
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Re: dont use wget or curl for torrent download

Post by ejonesss »

then they would not ban based on user agent they would use a cookie or even captcha
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