Hello.

I sometimes get the following error when opening a torrent file in KTorrent:

"An error occurred while loading the torrent:<br/><b>Parse Error</b><br/>The torrent is probably corrupt or is not a valid torrent file."

I am using KTorrent 4.0.5 under KDE 4.5.5 in Fedora 13.

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance.

\Spectrum

The error says what the problem is, the torrent isn't a valid torrent.

Unfortunately, I'm experiencing the same problem, as of today*, but when I open the same torrent with Transmission, it starts downloading normally, without any errors.

So it seems to me that the problem is not the torrent being invalid, but rather a bug in KTorrent.

Also, this error occurs persistently with torrents from isohunt, but not at all with torrents from the pirate bay.

I'm using KTorrent 4.0.3 under KDE 4.5.1 on Kubuntu 10.10

*I've been adding torrents all week and no error occurred until today. I assume it's unrelated, but I upgraded linux-firmware today; nothing else changed.

Surely I could switch to Transmission, but as you may understand, I like KTorrents feature set much better.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm having the same issue with ktorrent 4.0.3 with ubuntu, kde 4.5.5 from the maverick kubuntu PPA.

Some torrents from isohunt (two out of the last three I have tried) are seen as corrupt by ktorrent, but transmission (2.04 build 11151 for qt) opens them just fine.

Post a link to one of those torrents.

OK. Here are two torrents that give me error messages:

http://ca.isohunt.com/download/27708314 ... oc.torrent
http://ca.isohunt.com/download/50808287 ... ds.torrent

(Purely for testing purposes, of course. I would never dream of downloading pirated material...)

I am also having the same problem with torrents from isohunt
my version is 4.1 rc1

These torrents violate the bittorrent specification about the announce-list field (see http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html).

Will make ktorrent less strict, but somebody is using a broken tool to generate these torrents.

George wrote:These torrents violate the bittorrent specification about the announce-list field (see http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html).

Will make ktorrent less strict, but somebody is using a broken tool to generate these torrents.

Ah, I see.

I understand the dilemma. On one hand you want KTorrent to be universally usable, and on the other hand you want to discourage the proliferation of bad torrents.

It's your choice. I understand if you want to keep KTorrent strict and force people to obey the standards.

Spectrum wrote:

George wrote:These torrents violate the bittorrent specification about the announce-list field (see http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html).

Will make ktorrent less strict, but somebody is using a broken tool to generate these torrents.

Ah, I see.

I understand the dilemma. On one hand you want KTorrent to be universally usable, and on the other hand you want to discourage the proliferation of bad torrents.

It's your choice. I understand if you want to keep KTorrent strict and force people to obey the standards.

Or, this could be made optional in the config panels, to allow users to choose 'strict bt protocol' or not. This way people are forced to use some other bt client to download content of their choosing.

hyperbaba wrote:

Spectrum wrote:

George wrote:These torrents violate the bittorrent specification about the announce-list field (see http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html).

Will make ktorrent less strict, but somebody is using a broken tool to generate these torrents.

Ah, I see.

I understand the dilemma. On one hand you want KTorrent to be universally usable, and on the other hand you want to discourage the proliferation of bad torrents.

It's your choice. I understand if you want to keep KTorrent strict and force people to obey the standards.

Or, this could be made optional in the config panels, to allow users to choose 'strict bt protocol' or not. This way people are forced to use some other bt client to download content of their choosing.

Users should not be bothered with this

I agree that this should be an option users can enable or disable in the settings.

I love ktorrent, but I have been forced to switch to another client, simply because in practical terms ktorrent will not do what I want - download the torrents I need.

BTW, I have noticed some faster speeds with the libtorrent-based clients qbittorrent and deluge - why is this? Isn't ktorrent based on libtorrent as well?

George wrote:These torrents violate the bittorrent specification about the announce-list field (see http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html).

Will make ktorrent less strict, but somebody is using a broken tool to generate these torrents.

I agree with the other posters in this thread: ktorrent should be less strict because it will improve user experience/adoption. I also have two torrent managers because of this same problem but I definitely prefer ktorrent. Please, fix it soon, fast. What a previous poster said seems to be true here also, that is, torrent files from isohunt tend to be more than often refused by ktorrent.