Hello all,

Just want to know if there is a possibility to change client identification sent to the tracker, e.g. instead of Ktorrent send something as Azureus (the same way you can trick a browser identification to a server).

I'm using ktorrent 3.2.2 but it seems this is not allowed on some torrent trackers and I just don't want to run multiple clients because they want so.

I saw ktorrent can use some scripting, but unfortunately I didn't find anything in the API regarding the tracker data sent at the announcing moment.

Thanks for any ideas!

Unable to find a quick solution to this, I was forced to grab the sources (thanks opensource), modify them and run the "hacked" ktorrent. It simply works now.

Posted the full solution here.

A nice example of the elegance of open source.

It's irritating that some software checks for "compatible" clients in such a stupid way Eg sometimes having to have FFox lie and identify itself as IE for it to work with banking sites.

Thanks for posting the link to your patch. I think you should submit it to the developers.

Thanks tredegar.

Well, this solution was the quickest for me but not the most elegant I think (maybe a Settings based solution will work better for enduser - putting the identification in ktorrentrc file).

I don't know too much cpp, but I'll try to make a plugin for ktorrent and then submit to the developers.