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Re:Deluge BitTorrent Client by Galanwe on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:09AM (#31678366)
Out of curiosity, which feature of the client uses HTTP?

I thought BitTorrent was a protocol on top of e.g. TCP, is it carried inside HTTP by some clients?

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Re:Deluge BitTorrent Client by SahAssar on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:25AM (#31678466)
Some trackers use http (if you look at a magnet link and see `&tr=http://mytracker.net`), and webseed uses http: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html
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