how to create a Magnet link?

[flamboyant]

see the subject

[Snowhog]

You assume that the subject "say's it all" - it does not. :P

If there is to be any assistance given, please provide a good question.

[woodsmoke]

Hi
As snowhog said, sometimes brevity is not the best policy when asking a question, the more information we have the better we can help.

However, I assume that you are asking about torrent files.

Again, we need to know more information. If you are referring to Firefox, it did not, as of a while ago, natively support magnet links and you will have to install something like fuze which is not in the repos, but vuze and Azureus are

If you would care to go to Firefox addons website there are two clients which can be installed merely search for azureus and you will see them.

http://webbased.torrent-searcher.com/content/img/toolbar.png

woodsmoke

[flamboyant]

hello guys and thank you for the replies.

i have a file to share with my friends. i don't want to upload it anywhere. my plan was to send them a Magnet link to the file, so they could directly download it from me. however, afterwards i learned that i would still need a P2P network to share files with Magnet links. so i gave up that idea.

[SteveRiley]

i have a file to share with my friends. i don't want to upload it anywhere. my plan was to send them a Magnet link to the file, so they could directly download it from me. however, afterwards i learned that i would still need a P2P network to share files with Magnet links. so i gave up that idea.


Dropbox or one of its clones would probably be a better choice for your scenario. Other than setting up an account, there's no further work you need to do. Copy the file you want to share into your Dropbox folder; the client uploads a copy to their servers and returns a URL to you. You email the URL to your friend. Your friend's download will pull from the copy at Dropbox, not from your PC, so your PC doesn't need to be powered up. And your friend doesn't even need a Dropbox account.

[flamboyant]

thank you Steve for your suggestion, but as i said i don't want any uploading to a third party.

[bsniadajewski]

But it looks like you might have to (use some third party) anyway, other than good ol' sneakernet or e-mailing your friends.

[vinnywright]

thank you Steve for your suggestion, but as i said i don't want any uploading to a third party.


you can use Ktorrent to make a torrent file for what you what to send and then just email your friend the torrent file to use with whatever program he likes (utorrent,ktorrent,vuze ,ect,ect).

VINNY

[flamboyant]

But it looks like you might have to (use some third party) anyway ...

yes, it does, and that's why i put away the idea.

[flamboyant]

you can use Ktorrent to make a torrent file for what you what to send and then just email your friend the torrent file to use with whatever program he likes (utorrent,ktorrent,vuze ,ect,ect).

VINNY

i thought torrent files must be first placed on a torrent tracker. if so, i don't think it's a proper way to share personal files. and setting-up my own tracker is not an option either.

[SteveRiley]

Install and start a basic web server, put the file in question in the server's home directory, poke a hole in your firewall, and provide the URL to your friend.

If none of our other suggestions works for you, this is about the only other thing I can think of.

[flamboyant]

yes, i guess FTP server would do the job. i just hoped i could dispense with any servers, hence the topic.

[SteveRiley]

FTP is a bit more cumbersome to get working over a firewall. Go with HTTP instead.

Alternately, you could always toss the file into a bucket in S3 (http://aws.amazon.com/s3/) on Amazon Web Services. If necessary, you can put an access control list on it and even request AWS to encrypt it for you.

[flamboyant]

Amazon S3 is currently available in the US Standard, US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and GovCloud (US) Regions.
and i'm from the Urals. but thank you for your help anyway.

[SteveRiley]

One of the cool things about AWS is that anyone on the Internet is free to use any of those regions. The list simply informs you where AWS's data centers are. You don't have to be physically located in Ireland to use the EU data center, for example.

[HalationEffect]

You could try the Opera Unite feature built into current versions of the Opera browser.


Simply run the application on your copy of Opera, leave your PC connected to the internet and you – or anyone you give the URL and, if appropriate, the password to – can access that content from any web browser.

[flamboyant]

One of the cool things about AWS is that anyone on the Internet is free to use any of those regions. The list simply informs you where AWS's data centers are. You don't have to be physically located in Ireland to use the EU data center, for example.

doesn't the following mean what it says?

Objects stored in a Region never leave the Region unless you transfer them out. For example, objects stored in the EU (Ireland) Region never leave the EU.

[flamboyant]

You could try the Opera Unite feature built into current versions of the Opera browser.


Simply run the application on your copy of Opera, leave your PC connected to the internet and you – or anyone you give the URL and, if appropriate, the password to – can access that content from any web browser.

very nice, thank you. is there a similar extension for Firefox by any chance?

[HalationEffect]

You could try the Opera Unite feature built into current versions of the Opera browser.


Simply run the application on your copy of Opera, leave your PC connected to the internet and you – or anyone you give the URL and, if appropriate, the password to – can access that content from any web browser.

very nice, thank you. is there a similar extension for Firefox by any chance?


Not as far as I know.

There are 2 extensions that have similar functions: POW (Plain Old Webserver), and Browser-Server... problem is, POW doesn't seem to be developed any more and isn't available for recent versions of Firefox... and Browser-Server isn't available for Linux :(

[Ronshere]

Hi
you don't need to upload the torrent you create. Instead just email it to the people you want to share with. No one can link to you if they don't have it anyway. And then delete it when you finished sharing in case one of your buddies decides to give it away.
You can also create a private torrent by simply indicating that it is private with the progam you use. Look for that in the creation options. you can't download a private torrent without the password.

[SteveRiley]

One of the cool things about AWS is that anyone on the Internet is free to use any of those regions. The list simply informs you where AWS's data centers are. You don't have to be physically located in Ireland to use the EU data center, for example.

doesn't the following mean what it says?

Objects stored in a Region never leave the Region unless you transfer them out. For example, objects stored in the EU (Ireland) Region never leave the EU.


Sort of. AWS has data centers in a number of regions around the globe. The statement above means that AWS won't move your data from one region to another (this helps customers who must comply with certain regulations). But you, of course, are free to move or copy it wherever you wish.

[woodsmoke]

The info could be put into an image. Scan the info, make and image, and then place that image withing the enclosure image. It is called steganography and was all the buzz a few years ago.

There was even a demonstration that mousing over such a "steganized" image, if the image was so programmed, would be able to release a "virus" onto a machine, or a keylogger or something of that ilk.

Apparently it has not "taken off" yet by the malware/virusware writers but it will happen eventually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

And here is even a site that allows one to do it with a click. I think I would use the anonymizer function of your browser though! ;D This just MIGHT be a PLOY by the CIA to track down terrorists! ;D

http://mozaiq.org/encrypt/

woodsmoke