


If specified, can be 0 or 1 to indicate if the tracker is a private tracker. Message Stream Encryption (aka PHE) specification - new in v0.63 If the client is compatible with the multitracker specification, and if the “announce-list” key is present, the client will ignore the “announce” key and only use the URLs in “announce-list”. This key will refer to a list(s) of URLs, and will contain a list of tiers of announces. “name” “name.utf-8” “path” “path.uft-8” “comment” “comment.utf-8” “publisher” “publisher.utf-8” “publisher-url” “publisher-url.utf-8” “announce-list” In addition to the standard “announce” key (in the main area of the metadata file and not part of the “info” section), there will be a new key, “ announce-list”. UTF-8 values have higher priority than MBCS strings. Unicode Support, add “.utf-8” for those utf-8 encoding strings. Please note: The torrent file format was changed in v0.59 and posterior! Torrent File Format before v0.59 – old format before v0.59 BitComet will still keep adding a “.utf-8” key for all string for backward-compatibility.Ģ. 2) 3).įrom v1.20, the default encoding was changed to UTF-8 for all languages, to meet BitTorrent official specification. Each node is encoded as a 2-element list of host (string) and port (integer) 8) “publisher”: (optional) the name of the torrent creator (string) 9) “publisher-url”: (optional) the url of the torrent creator (string) 10) “comment”: (optional) free-form textual comments by the author (string) 11) “url-list”: (optional) a list containing one or more URLs of the mirror server(s) used as webseeding download sources.

torrent (string), like this: “BitComet/0.59” 5) “announce”: (optional) The announce URL of the tracker (string) 6) “announce-list”: (optional) multi-tracker list (a list of strings) 7) “nodes”: (optional) A list of DHT Network nodes. “publisher-url”: (optional) the URL of the torrent creator if do not allow to be changed (string) Ģ) “encoding”: the string encoding (string), in v0.59 or above is always “UTF-8” 3) “creation date”: the creation time of the torrent, in standard Unix epoch format (integer seconds since 00:00:00 UTC) 4) “created by”: name and version of the program used to create the.
