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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, I did verify that, sorry I wasn't clear. It definitely works.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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