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BitTorrent client in Go

Initially based off of a blog post from Jesse Li to implement the OG BitTorrent protocol.

Public Domain (aka Legal) Torrents for Testing

Supports

  • Original Spec (BEP0003)
    • Multi-file .torrent files
    • Original and Compact Peer List formats (BEP0023)

TODO

  • Implement 'endgame mode' as described in BEP0003 for downloading the last few pieces
  • Seeding in OG .torrent protocol
  • Magnet links - might go w/ udp trackers
    • UDP Trackers (BEP0015)
      • can acquire a list of peers (ip & port) from a UDP tracker url
    • UDP Extensions (BEP0041)
    • Extension to download metadata from peers (BEP0009)
  • DHT
  • PEX
  • Fast Extension (BEP0006)
  • Announce list - i.e. Multitracker Metadata Extension (BEP0012)
  • uTorrent Transport Protocol (BEP0029)
  • Some pretty terminal visual of pieces being downloaded?

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