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BitTornado 0.2.0, Windows XP Pro SP1, IE6.

sometimes, when i click on a small torrent to download it without actually saving the .torrent, IE downloads it just fine, but the BT client comes up with this:



i think the error is obvious: the double slash after the drive.
u think you could code a quick string parser that replaces double slashes with single ones, please?

it's a pain in the ass to have to save a torrent to download only 1 meg (and sometimes even less!)

thanks in advance, I love BitTornado

i was told that its a problem with the client not recognising the filename


"It's a problem with your OS / BitTorrent client. The torrent contains a file with an asterisk in the filename - Win32 refuses to create it since it gets interpreted as a wildcard.

Since 1781 people successfully downloaded the torrent I guess some popular Win32 client works with the torrent - you might want to try another one. I'd suggest Azureus since it's written in Java which is supposed to be somewhat 100% platform independend. "

Uh, no.

http://www.bittornado.com/faq.html

omg, clearing my cache will get rid or all my favicons
(the icons of the sites you bookmark)

I'm almost sure that this is neither a problem with any bittorrent client nor with the internet explorer.

I think that the problem is a misconfigured webserver or script that uses the http/1.1 cache-control: no-cache and/or no-store directive, therefore the torrent file gets not saved to the internet explorer cache and bittorrent can not find the file.

A right click, save as.. should always work.

@noroom
On which site do you get this error?

everytime i click on a torrent @ supernova.org

The above site works for me, you should try to clear the cache.
Which browser version do you use?

try cafe del mar on suprnova

all the vol1-8 work, but vol 9 gave me this error

actually my error is

"trouble access files" but with errno 2 still

whats in the FAQ that says anything about this error?

That's the error with a asterisk (*) in the filename, this is a invalid character on win32 systems (and linux ?).

So there is a "problem getting response info - [errno 2] No such file..." error and a "problem accessing file - [errno 2] No such file..." error.
The first ist caused by a error with internet explorer cache or no cached file at all.
The second is an error with invalid filenames.

Amazingly enough, an asterisks is a valid part of a filename in linux. The same is true for ? marks and some other chars that are invalid in filenames in windows.

Ok, I didn't know that you can create files with asterisks in linux, but like in windows it's also used as wildcard, so it would be better not to use it for torrent filenames or at least filter it out for windows systems.