I have tried to open torrents with international characters in the file and/or torrent name. This results in an error message from KTorrent:

"An error ocurred whilst loading the torrent file. The most likely cause is that the torrent file is corrupted, og it is not a torrent file at all."

But yes, it is a torrent file, and it works flawlessly with Azureus and uTorrent...

Any chance of this getting fixed?

Bart

Yes, just send us this torrent on email (see FAQ).

Sorry. Will do. Thanks.

I have made a bug report of it, easier for us to keep track of.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115565

The torrent you sent me is totally screwed up, this is the output from btshowmetainfo :

btshowmetainfo 20021207 - decode BitTorrent metainfo files

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/btshowmetainfo", line 24, in ?
metainfo = bdecode(metainfo_file.read())
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/bencode.py", line 64, in bdecode
r, l = decode_func[x[0]](x, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/bencode.py", line 40, in decode_dict
k, f = decode_string(x, f)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent/bencode.py", line 23, in decode_string
n = long(x[f:colon])
ValueError: invalid literal for long():

I need a working torrent to fix this problem.

George wrote:I need a working torrent to fix this problem.

I have sent you another torrent file on mail. Hope that one works better.

Bart

The torrent you sent me loads fine, can't start the download though : The tracker doesn't exist : http://qwerqwer.net

Azureus gives the same result.

Seeing that it is a loading problem which doesn't seem to occur anymore, I'm gonna close the bug report.

Hmm, this is strange...

It seems like a two case scenario:

1) I click on the download link in Firefox. I tell Firefox to open the file, using KTorrent. The file appearantly downloads, and KTorrent starts up. Then the following error message is shown: "An error occurred whilst loading the torrent file. The most likely cause is that the torrent file is corrupted, or it is not a torrent file at all." I click OK, and nothing more happens.

2) I right-click on the download link in Firefox. I tell Firefox to SAVE the file. Then I doubleclick on the file, it opens in KTorrent, and starts downloading just fine.

Strange... Any idea why these different behaviours occur?

I run FreeBSD 5.2.1, KDE 3.3.2, KTorrent (todays version from svn) and Firefox 1.0.7.

Bart

Does this only happen with firefox ?

Edit: It seems that firefox doesn't even want to start up ktorrent, I select /usr/bin/ktorrent and FF just doesn't start it.

Konqueror has no problems opening KT.

Weird ..

George wrote:Does this only happen with firefox ?

I did not suspect Firefox to be the problem, so I didn't try other browsers - until now. And yes, it works fine with Konqueror. That is really weird...

Bart

So it's a FireFox bug

i have the same problem with spanish caracter Ñ and accents. but in this scenario

the file i try to download has the caracter
y use a fat32 part to download
every BT client does the same

Can fat32 even store files which have these characters in their filename ?

window$ make some nasty tricks to make the user think he can,
in my first days with linux a see this as a negative point