adding torrent with transmission-remote

[envoy510]

I'm trying to add a torrent to Transmission running on another machine using transmission-remote (2.13, btw, on CentosOS 6.6), I often get the error "No torrent specified! Please use the -t option first". Here's how I'm adding:

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transmission-remote host:port --auth=username:passwd -a url --no-start-paused -sr 1.5 --trash-torrent --download-dir path

How could -t be used? There is no torrent id yet.

Help appreciated. Thanks.

[envoy510]

More information: if the url has https in it, I get the error message and the torrent is NOT added. If I change it to http, then I get the same error message but the torrent IS added to Transmission.

I have no problem fetching the torrent file with wget, so I have no idea why transmission-remote wouldn't be able to get it.