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ELinks BitTorrent Client
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This chapter provides a small manual for using the implemented
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BitTorrent client. The BitTorrent client is provided as an optional
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add-on for ELinks, and needs to be enabled at compile time. To build
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ELinks with BitTorrent support be sure to either pass
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`--enable-bittorrent` to `./configure` or change the value of
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`CONFIG_BITTORRENT` to `yes` in `features.conf`.
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Using the BitTorrent Client
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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To start the client, first go to a site which offers metainfo files. In
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the following, we will use the site link:http://www.legaltorrents.com/[].
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Direct ELinks to this site by issuing the command:
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$ elinks http://www.legaltorrents.com/
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Use the arrow keys to move between links on the page. Find a link,
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which points to a metainfo file (a file having the extension
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`.torrent`). This is indicated in the status bar in the bottom line.
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Once a metainfo file has been located, press the Return key. This
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should present you with the following dialog, querying whether the
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client should start to download the torrent:
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+--------------------------- What to do? ----------------------------+
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| What would you like to do with the file 'go-open-vol-2.torrent'? |
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| Information about the torrent: |
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| Size: 739 MiB (2959 * 262144 + 161542) |
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| Info hash: d85ef7b05288dc49203a7de97545e6c132834011 |
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| Announce URI: http://www.legaltorrents.com:7070/announce |
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| Creation date: Jun 26 08:04 |
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| Directory: go-open-vol-2 |
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| [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-07.mp4 |
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| [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-08.mp4 |
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| [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-09.mp4 |
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| [X] 104 MiB go-open-episode-10.mp4 |
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| [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-11.mp4 |
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| [X] 107 MiB go-open-episode-12.mp4 |
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| [X] 106 MiB go-open-episode-13.mp4 |
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| [X] 22 KiB go-open-vol-2.txt |
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| [ Download ] [ Save ] [ Display ] [ Show header ] [ Cancel ] |
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Press the `[ Download ]` button to open the download dialog and start
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downloading.
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Downloaded files can be found in the directory specified by the option
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`document.download.directory`. There is currently no way to change
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that.
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The Resume Dialog
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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If you start downloading a torrent which was previously active, the
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client will first try to resume downloaded data from the disk. The
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resume progress is shown in the resume dialog, depicted below:
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+--------------------------------------- Download ---------------------------------------+
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| bittorrent:http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/blue-a-short-film.torrent |
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| [|||||||||||||||||||||||||| 26% ] |
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| Resuming |
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| [ Background ] [ Background with notify ] [ Info ] [ Abort ] [ Abort and delete file ] |
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Wait until the resume completes. It will automatically launch the
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download dialog.
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The Download Dialog
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The download dialog gives an overview of the state of the download,
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such as progress, and a summary of which places in the torrent pieces
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have been downloaded from. A view of the download dialog along with
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highlights of the most important parts of the dialog is given below:
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+--------------------------------------- Download ---------------------------------------+
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| bittorrent:http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/best-of-webbed-hand-vol-1.torrent |
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| [||||||||| 9% ] |
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| Received 65 MiB of 681 MiB |
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| Average speed 269 KiB/s, current speed 291 KiB/s |
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| Elapsed time 4:08, estimated time 38:58 |
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| Status: downloading (rarest first) |
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| Peers: 7 connections, 5 seeders, 0 available |
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| Upload: 816 KiB, 3.2 KiB/s, 3.2 KiB/s average, 1:1 in 5:36:06 |
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| Sharing: 0.012 (816 KiB uploaded / 65 MiB downloaded) |
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| Pieces: 242 completed, 22 in progress, 2485 remaining |
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| Statistics: 9 in memory |
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| [ Background ] [ Background with notify ] [ Info ] [ Abort ] [ Abort and delete file ] |
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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The first bar shows the overall progress of the download along with a
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percentage of how much data has been downloaded. The second bar
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provides an overview of the piece completion progress, such as where
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in the torrent pieces has been downloaded from.
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Below the information about download speed and time estimations,
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several lines about the internal state of the client and its view of
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the swarm is displayed. For example the `Status` line shows which
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connection mode the client has entered along with the piece selection
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strategy if any. Here you will also find information about upload
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speed and sharing rates. Finally, the `Pieces` and `Statistics` lines
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display information from the piece cache. This includes the number of
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pieces which are currently held in memory, and the number of pieces
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currently being downloaded.
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