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uTorrent To rTorrent Bridge

Posted in Programming by Ryon Sherman on 06/11/2009

I recently made the switch from TorrentFlux to rTorrent. So, my uTorrent to TorrentFlux bridge needed to be ported.

If you use rTorrent and would like to use uTorrent remotes with it. Check out ut-rt-bridge here.

Maybe, with some help, a universal bridge library could come from this?

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uTorrent To TorrentFlux Bridge

Posted in Programming by Ryon Sherman on 06/02/2009

uTorrent is to Windows users as TorrentFlux is to Linux users. They both have a convenient web interface equipped with transfer controls. TorrentFlux is a bit more extensive, but uTorrent has always had a big advantage in my opinion: Remotes. There’s a huge list of community projects built from the collective WebUI API.

Every time I’d see a fancy remote application for my phone like Torrent FU or for my work computer like uRemote I’d spend hours thinking of ways to copy them for TorrentFlux. Finally I realized a more effecient solution: A bridge to translate uTorrent request URIs into TorrentFlux URIs and vice-versa. (more…)

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