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understanding_bitcomet [2011/04/27 17:03] greywizard [What is the encryption option in BitComet and what effects does it have on the operation of the client?] |
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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 |