I'm planning to create a small bittorrent client. I want this one to be my school project. Someone said it is really hard to create. Is it true?
I want to make it very simple. Anyone here knows where should I start?
I'm planning to create a small bittorrent client. I want this one to be my school project. Someone said it is really hard to create. Is it true?
I want to make it very simple. Anyone here knows where should I start?
Nope. I'm not familiar with network programming but I'm willing to study it. What's with the bittorrent protocol? Is it different from network programming itself? Is it a library or something?
Thanks
Yes, if hard == lot of work. Learning networking and protocols is no small task. Once you're past that stage it's not all that complicated, but does involve a fair amount of work if you want all the features.
That's why you don't reinvent the wheel. Check out the libtorrent library; it's amazing.
The libTorrent and rTorrent Project
I've seen custom implementations of the bittorrent protocol by professional companies (Blizzard's downloader) and often times they fail in comparison to a simple libtorrent application.
It's also not "hard." With libtorrent you're working at a higher level and don't have to learn the bittorrent protocol, but it helps to know what it is and how it's working for you.
BitTorrent (protocol) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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