libtorrent rejects a torrent which has a valid announce but a malformed announce-list

[anonymous]

If libtorrent is asked to download a torrent which defines a valid announce URL, but a malformed announce-list, then it rejects it with the message "Tracker group list not a list".

See the attached torrent file as an example. This torrent contains fields as follows (in Python syntax):

{

"announce": " http://inferno.demonoid.com:3394/announce", "announce-list": [

{

0: {}

}

], "created by": "uTorrent/2000"

}

Clearly, this file is ludicrously and inexcusably malformed. Still, there is enough information to download it, it would be useful if libtorrent did so.

At present, the workaround is to use a hex editor to destroy the announce-list by turning the key into something unrecognised ("xnnounce-list" will do), so libtorrent ignores it.

[maximilian.kuhnke@rankesoft.org]

Patch which will fix this problem

[maximilian.kuhnke@rankesoft.org]

I have attached a patch,

works with libtorrent-0.12.7 and the current svn rev. 1191. It will make these kind of torrents work until a more qualified developer implements an adequate solution.

greets.

[cygon]

This issue is hitting me quite a lot recently - about one in three torrents fails to add with "tracker group list not a list". Probably some genius messed up the file format in one of the mainstream BitTorrent clients...

[anonymous]

Starting from which release version is this fix included? Thanks!

[anonymous]

I also don't find this bug fixed. rakshasa please tell us which version is correct.