Will Bitcomet support Magnet Links?

johnathonm · November 17, 2009, 4:53pm

Hi BitComet Crew,

I hope you are all well. First, let me say I love BitComet and have been using it for several years and through several iterations. That being said I was wondering if you were planning on incorporating Magnet link support into the client? This seems to be a new emerging standard and is especially relevant now that some of the major sites are switching to this technology.

Please advise and I hope you will.

Thank you,

J

greywizard · November 18, 2009, 1:30am

I certainly hope so.

With Mainline BT, uTorrent and rTorrent already supporting it, that would give us a huge pool of peers to trade with.

Besides, it seems that as of this month, TPB has gone completely trackerless, relying only on magnet links + DHT, so this seems to be the trend.

That’s why I moved this topic to the Feature Requests section.

sophia0316 · November 18, 2009, 3:59am

Thank you, I will report this to the team/

sophia0316 · November 19, 2009, 7:10am

Magnet link will be supported in next version. Thank you.

johnathonm · November 20, 2009, 4:04pm

Thank you. As always, your group rocks.

Mortan · November 26, 2009, 9:01pm

Best news I heard since they split the max number of tasks between HTTP/FTP and BT.

srinivasmv419 · November 27, 2009, 11:36pm

ya waiting 4 this only,then no one can beat bitcomet