Start torrent downloads from an iPhone
Wed, Dec 26 2007 at 7:30AM PST • Contributed by: Whosawhatsis
Wed, Dec 26 2007 at 7:30AM PST • Contributed by: Whosawhatsis
I have a server that I use for, among other things, downloading files with bittorrent. I usually start these torrents by downloading them on my primary computer and then dropping them onto an alias to my server's torrents folder, which my bittorrent client (Transmission) monitors so that it can start the torrents automatically. I occasionally wanted to use my iPod Touch to start these torrents, but Mobile Safari refuses to download torrent files.
My solution was to use Javascript to alter the torrent link to send its URL to my server for download rather than trying to open it. A PHP script on the server could then download that URL to the torrents folder. With both scripts in place, and the permissions of the torrents folder modified to allow Apache to write files, all I have to do is run the Javascript as a bookmarklet before clicking the torrent link, and click the link to download the torrent file. The modified link will pass this URL to the script to download it on the server.
Bookmarklet:
Modifications required:
My solution was to use Javascript to alter the torrent link to send its URL to my server for download rather than trying to open it. A PHP script on the server could then download that URL to the torrents folder. With both scripts in place, and the permissions of the torrents folder modified to allow Apache to write files, all I have to do is run the Javascript as a bookmarklet before clicking the torrent link, and click the link to download the torrent file. The modified link will pass this URL to the script to download it on the server.
Bookmarklet:
function%20torrent()%20%7Bwindow.location.href%20=%20%22http://torrent.server.address/t.php?%22%20+%20this.href;%20return%20false;%7D;%20for%20(link%20=%200;%20link%20%3C%20document.links.length;%20link++)%20document.links%5Blink%5D.onclick%20=%20torrent;">torrent
PHP:
<?php
if (!($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] == "username" && $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] == "password")) {
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="torrent"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
} else {
passthru('curl -H "Referer: '.$_SERVER['$HTTP_REFERER'].'" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10" -o /path/to/monitored/torrents/folder/remote.torrent "'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'].'"');
}
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