"Build Your Own BitTorrent" Challenge.
In this challenge, you’ll build a BitTorrent client that's capable of parsing a .torrent file and downloading a file from a peer. Along the way, we’ll learn about how torrent files are structured, HTTP trackers, BitTorrent’s Peer Protocol, pipelining and more.
$> ./your_bittorrent.sh download -o /tmp/file.txt sample.torrent
# or using a magnet link
$> ./your_bittorrent.sh magnet_download -o /tmp/file.gif "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c5fb9894bdaba464811b088d806bdd611ba490af&dn=magnet3.gif&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbittorrent-test-tracker.codecrafters.io%2Fannounce"You can also test it by downloading unbuntu's iso but its pretty freaking slow because I only get a few peers most of the time !
- I struggled to understand the protocol and the way I wrote the logic is a maze. Lacks clarity, because it wasn't clear in my head
- Didn't implement file caches, so if a peer crashes / your computer crashes you have to start the download all over again
- Because of the absence of cache, if you download a big file it lives in your memory. Big ram usage that could be avoided by using the filesystem more