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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it does. I think it will work with any http server supporting range
requests.
You can have multiple webseed urls in the torrent as well, just pass
--urlList flag multiple times.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does it also work with the OSDN mirror?
>
> tor. 1. okt. 2020 02.42 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recall we had this discussion before about providing torrent files for
>> release downloads to reduce the slowdown related to rush traffic. it didn't
>> go far mainly because of resources needed to maintain separate torrent
>> seeding infrastructure.
>>
>> I recently discovered that p2p torrent protocol supports webseeding, a
>> feature that allows torrent clients to download chunks of files from
>> standard http/ftp servers. It's implemented by most major torrent client
>> software. This way the file is initially seeded by the http server but as
>> more and more peers get the data the swarm takes over most of the traffic
>> load.
>>
>> I tried it out and it works nicely with kicad's existing http download
>> resources so there is no need to have separate infra for torrents!
>>
>> Would you be open to adding this?
>> All that is needed is put .torrent files either on kicad website or even
>> better, on the https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/ server next to the
>> installers and add a link to them.
>>
>> I've generated torrents with webseed information for 5.1.7 here:
>> https://forum.kicad.info/t/torrents-for-kicad-stable-version-5-1-7-win-and-osx/16609/14?u=qu1ck
>>
>> To do it yourself in the future is trivial, here is the bash script I
>> used to create the files:
>>
>> for f in *.exe ; do
>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList
>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/windows/stable/
>> done
>> for f in *.dmg ; do
>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList
>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/
>> done
>>
>> It depends on create-torrent utility that you can get by running "npm
>> install -g create-torrent"
>>
>> I can also make a merge request on the kicad website if someone will
>> upload the torrent files to the s3 server.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrew
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