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Bug 1173

Summary:	Ktorrent doesn't recognize magnet links
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Kris <krisgamrat>
Component:	tdenetwork	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bugwatch, julius.schwartzenberg, wofgdkncxojef
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Kris 2012-08-16 11:16:23 CDT

When I try to paste a magnet link into Ktorrent, it displays the following error:

Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:

klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'magnet'.

Comment 1 Julius Schwartzenberg 2012-08-16 12:40:30 CDT

There is no magnet support in Trinity's version of KTorrent and there are no plans to add such support for now I guess.

Comment 2 Kris 2012-08-16 12:48:26 CDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> There is no magnet support in Trinity's version of KTorrent and there are no
> plans to add such support for now I guess.

There are sites that no longer provide a .torrent file but instead only provide magnet links. That doesn't make much sense, but because of this, magnet support is needed.

Comment 3 Julius Schwartzenberg 2012-08-16 13:25:05 CDT

It makes sense with some jurisdictions, but unfortunately it can't be easily support in Trinity's KTorrent. Most likely this will be solved when Trinity will gain integration with the KDE4 successors of its applications.

If you are really interested, it might be possible to backport this feature from a newer KTorrent version.

Comment 4 Kris 2012-08-16 13:32:28 CDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> It makes sense with some jurisdictions, 

I'd be interested to know where...

>but unfortunately it can't be easily
> support in Trinity's KTorrent. Most likely this will be solved when Trinity
> will gain integration with the KDE4 successors of its applications.

Personally I wouldn't support that. There's nothing saying that KDE4 apps can't be run within TDE as long as the needed libs are installed, but I don't think there should be any integration.
 
> If you are really interested, it might be possible to backport this feature
> from a newer KTorrent version.

I'd attempt it myself if I knew how to program. Unfortunately, I don't, and it's currently not high on my priority list (I won't be able to devote a lot of time to learning for a couple of years).

Comment 5 Darrell 2012-08-16 15:22:46 CDT

For future hackers, here are some links to magnet code in ktorrent for KDE4:

http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=libktorrent.git&a=search&h=f6560924c812493871a93046477a918f0be982dd&st=commit&s=magnet

http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=ktorrent.git&a=search&h=bc2aa4fa7f3f7e396230c8a575b3b8dfa6403b87&st=commit&s=magnet

Comment 6 wofgdkncxojef 2017-08-21 04:49:00 CDT

I tried to load a torrent, and it claimed it was corrupt..
The best long term solution, would be to use libtorrent as the back end....