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[degarb]

I might like to make a tor client, something p2p for podcasting.

I never personally had enough bandwidth for tor, and am fuzzy if this is possible.

[polyethene]

Could you please give more details? Tor is a client, you can use it as a local proxy.
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[degarb]

Titan, my man! Iron ahk!

I don't know much about tor and wiki not offering me the shoe leather info. All I know about tor, is you post a tor link on a page, the client (in my case opera, looks for peers with copies of the file. Opera downloads, then on completion starts sharing the downloaded with others until you stop it.

If you look at our ahkpod cast client (look at my latest posts), it uses url downloadtofile after parsing the xml to find the mp3 (or other) links. All automatic. I don't know if this can be tied into some specific client or command line tor client.

This way a podcaster with limited bandwidth could write and post the xml code to some standard html server, share a copy of their latest show, and the loyal users would download and help distribute the podcasts! (if we are the only podcast client to support this tor distribution, the better.)

Thanks.
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[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

I think you mistake TOR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29 with BitTorrent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29

TOR is for helping you to surf anonymously, BitTorrent is to distribute (large) file(s)

edit: copy + paste urls above the forum borks the () in links
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[degarb]

Don't they call them tor links? I know I used it to download some large iso images.

Anyone, know where to start to merge this with standard podcasting and automated podcast clients like ahkpod ( http://www.autohotkey.net/~degarb/ahkpod and thread at http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic42341-15.html)

code is open, I think latest code was posted at end of that thread, so welcome to pick it up and improve.

[da_boogie_man]

Ahh, you're thinking of Torrent linx! VERY different than the TOR network.

And torrent linx work with Clients {like BitTorrent as hugov mentioned}.

DBM

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