Project info for Snark

Created 17 May 2003 at 10:34 UTC by mjw.

Freshmeat page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/snark/

Notes:

The Hunting of the Snark Project produces a client program (snark) for distributing, downloading and sharing files with the BitTorrent protocol. It is mainly used for exploring the BitTorrent protocol and experimenting with the GNU Compiler for Java (gcj), but it can also be used as a regular BitTorrent client.

Snark can also act as a torrent creator, a tiny HTTP server for delivering metainfo.torrent files, and has an integrated tracker for making the sharing of files as easy as possible. When you use the --share option, Snark will automatically create a .torrent file and start a very simple Web server to distribute the metainfo.torrent and a local tracker that other BitTorrent clients can connect to.

License: GPL

This project has the following developers:

• mjw is a Lead Developer.

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

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