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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was implicitly hoping you could explicitly verify for me that using the
OSDN url would support range requests.  :)

tor. 1. okt. 2020 09.09 skrev 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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