Unable to load torrents to WebUI

[search66]

Running Ubuntu Maverick with the latest build.
Ensured 9091 is open on my firewall and router.
I'm able to access the WebUI locally and on the internet.

When I try to add a torrent, nothing happens... no error message... no activity.

Any help would be great! Thanks!

[search66]

Bump for bumpity goodness.

[Rolcol]

1) You say latest build but Transmission is on 2.11 and the one that ships with Maverick is 2.04. Please specify the version.
2) What browser are you using to connect to the webui?
3) Are you adding a link to the torrent file or uploading the file from the local machine you're on?
3.5) If the former, does the site require registration?
4) If it's a public and legal torrent, post a link. It may be a problem with the actual .torrent file

[search66]

Thanks for the response... I am using Maverick, and it is 2.04 (11151).

2. I've tried Chromium, Firefox and Safari
3. If I use the web to upload/add the torrent file; it does work... Adding via a URL doesn't work.
4. I've tried multiple torrent files, and all have the same result.

Prior to Maverick, this worked fine... I'm not sure what has changed...

[Rolcol]

Check the message log. If you're running the daemon, it writes its log to syslog by default. If there's a reason it's not adding the files, it could be listed there.

Possible problems:
1) Transmission doesn't have the appropriate access to the filesystem.
2) The .torrent files arrive corrupt.

Perhaps you can try 2.11 or a nightly and see if the problem persists? jQuery was updated in the nightlies about 11 days ago; It could be a problem with that.

[search66]

I'll give it a shot... Thanks! And is there a 2.11 for Linux yet?

[Rolcol]

You can use the PPA or you can compile the source. I recommend the PPA.

[search66]

Perfect. Thank you.

[search66]

I used the PPA (thanks) and installed... I think I found the 'real' problem; and I'm not sure how to remedy... I have no troubles adding torrents now; unless the site is password protected.

Is there a way around this? I know I used to download torrents from this same site prior to Maverick...

Huhm....

[Rolcol]

That was one of the scenarios I considered in my other post. You can try to have Transmission use the cookies.txt file but I don't know how to get that going. Can't you just download the torrent file on the computer you're on and feeding that to Transmission rather than linking to it?

[search66]

Well my main reason for using the webui was to load torrents from my iPhone.... Imma keep digging.

[search66]

Thanks for this... do you have an example of what the cookies.txt should look like/include? Thanks!

[anville]

The easiest way to do this is to visit your torrents sites with your browser, authenticate, and then export the cookies. Google around for how to do this with your favorite browser. IE does it natively with an export dialog. You can find a plugin for Firefox.

Probably best to clear all your cookies from the browser before you start so you don't have lots of extra non-torrent stuff in there.

Once you get the cookies.txt file, open it in a text edit to see what it looks like. It should be fairly clear what's going on. For example, this file has two cookies for ww.foobar.com: uid and authcode.

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#  Internet Explorer cookie file, exported for Netscape browsers.

www.foobar.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1446593236	uid	1111111

www.foobar.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1446593236	authcode 3245345683475638457683234

[search66]

Thanks a ton... really appreciate it.