Gorrent

Gorrent's objective is to recreate a peer to peer file sharing application in go, mainly for educationnal purpose. It's taking inspiration over the implementation of bittorrent, but getting ride of annoying bencode format and some other features on the way. The main focus is around the fast transfer of files across machines in a private environment.

Notes

General

Create gorrent

go run gorrent.go create -src /path/to/sources -dst /tmp/some.gorrent -announce 127.0.0.1:4444

Trackerd

Launch trackerd

go run gorrent.go trackerd

Peerd

Launch peerd

go run gorrent.go peerd -config peerd_config_sample.json

go run gorrent.go peerd -config peerd_config_sample2.json

List gorrents

curl -XGET --unix-socket /tmp/gorrent/peerd.sock http://localhost/

Add new gorrent

curl -XPOST --unix-socket /tmp/gorrent/peerd.sock -F "gorrent=@/tmp/some.gorrent" -F "path=/path/to/storage/"  http://localhost/add

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