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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes,

> You can have multiple webseed urls in the torrent as well, just pass
--urlList flag multiple times.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 2:14 AM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Can it have multiple webseed locations?
>
> fre. 6. nov. 2020 02.40 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> Is there anything else I can help with here?
>> I see 5.1.8 update is released already.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:48 AM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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