It's possible, via the remote interface for other clients, to load a torrent via the Username:Password URL. Ex:

http://Username:Password@tracker.com/to ... le.torrent

For when a tracker is private. My work computers will not download any file identified as having the .torrent file extension, so I can't download to my machine at work, then upload to my box at home.

I have been unable to load torrents using KTorrent via the URL box in the interface of the webinterface using Username:password, although direct links are easy, of course.

Can we have this enabled/implemented in future versions?

Thanks.

Does this also not work when you open the URL directly with ktorrent (via a shell or file -> paste torrent URL) ?

George, I'm not sure, I've never done that.

I'll try and remember to do so when I get home. I always use my browser (Firefox), and let that send the .torrent to KTorrent.

When I use the 'correct' protocol, I get this error:

An error occurred while loading the torrent. The torrent is probably corrupt or is not a torrent file.

I can load un-user-password protected links in easily. It's possible the site doesn't permit this. I'll check.

OK, then we must check this out, I guess I can probably test this with a local apache server.

Btw, what do you get back when you do this in a shell :

wget http://Username:Password@tracker.com/to ... le.torrent
ktorrent torrentfile.torrent

George,
I've tried the above on three different sites, none will allow me to load. Will use your Shell command on return home.
I'll check that out when I get home. You mean for me to use actual files and torrent sites, right, not the literal text you wrote?

stevenofnine wrote:George,
I've tried the above on three different sites, none will allow me to load. Will use your Shell command on return home.
I'll check that out when I get home. You mean for me to use actual files and torrent sites, right, not the literal text you wrote?

Obviously with real URL's, otherwise it's not gonna work.

OK, I just setup a password protected apache server, and if I open http://user:password@127.0.0.1/torrrents/test.torrent with ktorrent it works without problems.

So I'm really interested in what results you get with wget.

Here's what the Shell put out. After all this, I had a torrentfile.torrent in my default Home directory.

[steven@laptop ~]$ wget http://user:password@tracker.com/torrentfile.torrent ktorrent torrentfile.torrent
--20:58:39-- http://user:*password*@tracker.com/torrentfile.torrent ktorrent torrentfile.torrent'
Resolving tracker.com... 74.xx.xx.xx
Connecting to tracker.com|74.xx.xx.xx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 37,683 (37K) [application/x-bittorrent]

100%[====================================>] 37,683 --.--K/s

20:58:55 (549.68 KB/s) - `torrentfile.torrent ktorrent torrentfile.torrent' saved [37683/37683]

[steven@laptop ~]$


Note: I did not receive a notice that KTorrent was already running. And KTorrent did NOT open the file.
//EDIT It's occurring to me that that was 2 lines of code, not one?

Yeah 2 lines,

If it doesn't load in in ktorrent, then open it with a text editor. Chances are, it probably is a html error page.

My guess is that the sites you are trying this on have a normal login thing, like most websites do. Which makes what you are trying to do impossible.