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| The encryption option in BitComet (just as in other clients) has the purpose of obfuscating BitTorrent traffic in order to render it undetectable (or at least less detectable) to traffic shaping applications which some ISPs use, in order to throttle BitTorrent traffic.\\ | The encryption option in BitComet (just as in other clients) has the purpose of obfuscating BitTorrent traffic in order to render it undetectable (or at least less detectable) to traffic shaping applications which some ISPs use, in order to throttle BitTorrent traffic.\\ | ||
| - | BitComet uses the MSE/PE encryption method | + | BitComet uses the MSE/PE encryption method |
| For more detailed information on this subject, as well as for a description of the effect each encryption level chosen in the client has on connections read [[protocol_encryption|this topic]]. | For more detailed information on this subject, as well as for a description of the effect each encryption level chosen in the client has on connections read [[protocol_encryption|this topic]]. | ||
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| ====What is web-seeding and how can I make use of it?==== | ====What is web-seeding and how can I make use of it?==== | ||
| - | Simply put, web-seeding is a technology which allows a BitTorrent swarm to use a web server as a peer of the swarm. In other words if you have content you want to distribute through a web server, you can use web-seeding to create a BitTorrent swarm around that content and offload the burden from the web-server, as it would act a simple seed in that swarm maintaining it alive for as long as you share that content, but as soon as there are more than one downloaders, | + | Simply put, web-seeding is a technology which allows a BitTorrent swarm to use a web server as a peer of the swarm. In other words if you have content you want to distribute through a web server, you can use web-seeding to create a BitTorrent swarm around that content and offload the burden from the web-server, as it would act a simple seed in that swarm maintaining it alive for as long as you share that content, but as soon as there are more than one downloaders, |
| Currently there are two web-seeding specifications available out there: | Currently there are two web-seeding specifications available out there: | ||
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| - | In order to benefit from a web-seeding server a BitTorrent client must support web--seeding. BitComet supports GetRight style web-seeding since v.1.14. For details on how to create a torrent with a web-seeding server check [[making_torrents_with_bitcomet|this topic]]. | + | In order to benefit from the presence of a web-seeding server |
