[cgi] tracking if a file is currently shared by a user[DONE]

kidan · Post by **kidan** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 1:06 pm

I just thought about this idea:

It would be nice to know, if somebody is sharing a particular file at the moment. This would be especially useful, if the request-feature is implemented one day (to stop unnessary requests). Of course flagging each file like you do with the watched-flag is not likely to be done by anyone.

But here is my idea to handle that quite easy:

There would have to be a dropbox like for ed2kdump (name could be 'MyShares'). In this you would copy and paste the links of all your shared files (real easy with emule, as it can do multiline copying). Then you scan these files and if they are already listed in MyList they get a shared flag set. All other files in MyList get the shared-flag removed.

This way you could tell (rougthly) how many complete sources should be there at least.

In my opinion this would not be that much work for coding, but could proof really useful. And I guess most people will keep their list accurate as it could be done in about 2 minutes of your time.

Post by **exp** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:14 pm

actually,

this feature has been requested in the past and is on the todo list.
the idea of using ed2k dump as a quick way to change the shared status for a list of files is rather interesting though.

btw. do common ed2k/overnet programs allow you to extract a list of ed2k links for all the files you share?
or would ppl have to copy each ed2k link manually?

BYe!
EXP

kidan · Post by **kidan** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:21 pm

In eMule you can go to the shared-files-tab, selet the topmost entry, press shift, scroll down and click on the last entry. Right-click -> copy ed2k-link to clipboard. real easy.
As only files which are already listed in MyList, episodes people are loading at the moment and non anime-files would be filtered out automatically.

I don't know how other clients handle this, but I guess there should be simmillar features.

I would code the processing function like this:

1. check if empty form -> exit(error no files)
2. unflag all files in MyList as not shared
3. for each ed2k-link check if md5 occurs within MyList, if yes, flag that file as shared
4. give out statistics/success message

Post by **exp** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 10:49 pm

hm, k,

ONTODO.
but we need the requested additional mylist entry states first

)

BYe!
EXP

Post by **exp** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 10:57 am

this has been implemented now.
a reshare request feature should be posted as seperate feature request post.

BYe!
EXP