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The multiparty transport protocol.

This is Libswift (aka BitTorrent at the transport layer).Differently from TCP, the protocol does not use the ordered data stream abstraction.Effectively, it splits a file into 1KB packets and sends them around.The secret sauce is Merkle hash trees and binmaps.

Requires libevent-2.0.17 or higher.

Seedoc/index.html for marketing stuff, ideas and rants,doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol-00.txt for the drafr protocol specification,and*.cpp files for the actual code.

swift.cpp is the main exec file; it may be run as e.g.

$ ./swift -t node300.das2.ewi.tudelft.nl:20000 -h \d1502706c46779d361a1d562a10da0a45c4c40e5 -f \trailer.ogg

...to retrieve video and save it to a file.

Alternatively, you might play with the HTTP gateway, the preliminaryversion. First, run the seeder-tracker:

$ ./swift -f ~/Downloads/big_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.ogg -l 0.0.0.0:20000Root hash: 7c462ad1d980ba44ab4b819e29004eb0bf6e6d5f

...then you may try running the swift-HTTP gateway...

$ ./swift -t 127.0.0.1:20000 -g 0.0.0.0:8080 -w

...and finally you may point your browser at the gateway...

http://127.0.0.1:8080/7c462ad1d980ba44ab4b819e29004eb0bf6e6d5f

If you use an HTML5 browser (Chrome preferred),you are likely to see the bunny trailer at this point...