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Set WebTorrent as the default handler for .torrent files and magnet links #77

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feross opened this issue Mar 8, 2016 · 3 comments
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Set WebTorrent as the default handler for .torrent files and magnet links #77

feross opened this issue Mar 8, 2016 · 3 comments

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feross commented Mar 8, 2016

Let's add a button to the Preferences Pane #62 for enabling this for magnet links. Like with lots of other things, I think Transmission gets this UI and wording right:

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For .torrent files, I think we just register with the OS that our application can open .torrent files and leave it up to the OS and user to configure WebTorrent as their default.

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  • OS X: Handle .torrent files
  • OS X: Handle magnet links
  • Windows: Handle .torrent files
  • Windows: Handle magnet links
  • Linux: Handle .torrent files
  • Linux: Handle magnet links
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enable os x file drop, add osx torrent file icon
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- fixes #131
- partially addresses #77 for osx (now handles .torrent files)
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feross commented Mar 20, 2016

Ubuntu protocol handler intsructions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/514125/url-protocol-handlers-in-basic-ubuntu-desktop

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feross commented Mar 20, 2016

Okay, since I just got Windows magnet links working, going to just do .torrent file handling too.

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feross commented Mar 20, 2016

This is done! Whew, that was a lot of hacky, platform-specific code!

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