Ability to paste a url of a torrent

[RayBB]

I think the title describes it but basically instead of just magnet/infohash it would be great to be able to paste in a url of a torrent file such as https://archive.org/download/prideprejudicewi00austuoft/prideprejudicewi00austuoft_archive.torrent

[varbhat]

@RayBB ,

exatorrent had this feature initially but had removed this feature intentionally because of :

1. user can use this feature to make server make request/fetch content from any URL.
2. Implementation of Denylist of Domains

Note that i had even set response size limit of 20MB but intentionally removed it because of above mentioned reasons.

It is easy to implement this feature using

exatorrent/internal/core/getspec.go

Line 17 in 7d3a338

func SpecfromURL(torrentURL string) (spec *torrent.TorrentSpec, reterr error) {

but wasn't implemented for above mentioned reasons.

[RayBB]

It would be nice to have one day but your reasons are fair. Especially as designed with the multiple users use case.

[varbhat]

Maybe you can fork and customize for your usecase.