51 lines
2.1 KiB
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51 lines
2.1 KiB
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A client that understands extended messages should set the 5th
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bit of the 6th byte of the reserved area in the handshake. For
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example: reserved[5] = 0x10
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If the above bit is set in both peers' handshakes then they may
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exchange extended messages, which use id 20. The first byte of an
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extended message (after the 4-byte length and 1-byte id, of course) is
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the extended message id. The first extended message that should be
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sent is a handshake message, which always has an extended id of 0.
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The handshake message informs the peer which extended messages are
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supported and what their extended id will be. The message payload is
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a bencoded dictionary which may have some of the following keys:
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e
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int, 1 or 0. a flag to denote whether the peer prefers
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encrypted connections. This is used in ut_pex's "added.f".
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m
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dict containing supported extended messages and the extended id used
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p
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int, tcp port for incoming peer connections
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v
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string, client name and version. eg: Transmission 0.7
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A peer may re-send the handshake message at any time to add new
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extended message, or to disable previous messages by sending 0 as
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their extended id.
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uTorrent peer exchange messages use the key "ut_pex" in the m
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dictionary. If the uTorrent peer has pex disabled, this key
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will not be present. Exchanges messages should be sent approximately
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once every minute. The payload of a peer exchange message is a
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bencoded dictionary with the following keys:
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added
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string, contains peers in the compact tracker format
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(ie: 6 bytes for IPv4 address and port in network byte order)
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added since the last peer exchange message
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added.f
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string, one byte of flags for each peer in the above added string.
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according to libtorrent's ut_pex.c:
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0x01 - peer supports encryption
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0x02 - peer is a seed
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dropped
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same format as added, contains peers dropped since last peer exchange
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In contrast to Azureus' maximum of 50 peers per pex burst, uTorrent will
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hold up to 200. alus reports: "uT stores max 200 from other peers, but it
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will send everything it has."
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