how to create a Magnet link?

[flamboyant]

see the subject

[Snowhog]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

You assume that the subject "say's it all" - it does not. :P

If there is to be any assistance given, please provide a good question.

[woodsmoke]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

Hi
As snowhog said, sometimes brevity is not the best policy when asking a question, the more information we have the better we can help.

However, I assume that you are asking about torrent files.

Again, we need to know more information. If you are referring to Firefox, it did not, as of a while ago, natively support magnet links and you will have to install something like fuze which is not in the repos, but vuze and Azureus are

If you would care to go to Firefox addons website there are two clients which can be installed merely search for azureus and you will see them.

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woodsmoke

[flamboyant]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

hello guys and thank you for the replies.

i have a file to share with my friends. i don't want to upload it anywhere. my plan was to send them a Magnet link to the file, so they could directly download it from me. however, afterwards i learned that i would still need a P2P network to share files with Magnet links. so i gave up that idea.

[SteveRiley]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

i have a file to share with my friends. i don't want to upload it anywhere. my plan was to send them a Magnet link to the file, so they could directly download it from me. however, afterwards i learned that i would still need a P2P network to share files with Magnet links. so i gave up that idea.

Dropbox or one of its clones would probably be a better choice for your scenario. Other than setting up an account, there's no further work you need to do. Copy the file you want to share into your Dropbox folder; the client uploads a copy to their servers and returns a URL to you. You email the URL to your friend. Your friend's download will pull from the copy at Dropbox, not from your PC, so your PC doesn't need to be powered up. And your friend doesn't even need a Dropbox account.

[flamboyant]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

thank you Steve for your suggestion, but as i said i don't want any uploading to a third party.

[bsniadajewski]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

But it looks like you might have to (use some third party) anyway, other than good ol' sneakernet or e-mailing your friends.

[vinnywright]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

thank you Steve for your suggestion, but as i said i don't want any uploading to a third party.

you can use Ktorrent to make a torrent file for what you what to send and then just email your friend the torrent file to use with whatever program he likes (utorrent,ktorrent,vuze ,ect,ect).

VINNY

[flamboyant]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

But it looks like you might have to (use some third party) anyway ...

yes, it does, and that's why i put away the idea.

[flamboyant]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

you can use Ktorrent to make a torrent file for what you what to send and then just email your friend the torrent file to use with whatever program he likes (utorrent,ktorrent,vuze ,ect,ect).

VINNY

i thought torrent files must be first placed on a torrent tracker. if so, i don't think it's a proper way to share personal files. and setting-up my own tracker is not an option either.

[SteveRiley]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

Install and start a basic web server, put the file in question in the server's home directory, poke a hole in your firewall, and provide the URL to your friend.

If none of our other suggestions works for you, this is about the only other thing I can think of.

[flamboyant]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

yes, i guess FTP server would do the job. i just hoped i could dispense with any servers, hence the topic.

[SteveRiley]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

FTP is a bit more cumbersome to get working over a firewall. Go with HTTP instead.

Alternately, you could always toss the file into a bucket in S3 on Amazon Web Services. If necessary, you can put an access control list on it and even request AWS to encrypt it for you.

[flamboyant]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

Amazon S3 is currently available in the US Standard, US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and GovCloud (US) Regions.

and i'm from the Urals. but thank you for your help anyway.

[SteveRiley]

Re: how to create a Magnet link?

One of the cool things about AWS is that anyone on the Internet is free to use any of those regions. The list simply informs you where AWS's data centers are. You don't have to be physically located in Ireland to use the EU data center, for example.