Test Transporrent

How to test Transporrent:
  1. Install the Firefox extension
  2. Restart Firefox
  3. Come back to this page
  4. Look for "Test Transporrent" in the bottom right-hand corner of your browser
  5. Right-click it and click "Trigger torrent d/l"
  6. You now have a torrent downloading based on the Transporrent protocol!

How does it work?

This page cheats a bit for the sake of simple testing for the Firefox extension. It adds the X-Transporrent HTTP header to this page itself (In the protocol, the server only sends the X-Transporrent header with the media file). The extension reads the headers to determine if the special header exists. If the extension finds the Transporrent HTTP Header, it reads the .torrent location out of the header value and starts that torrent downloading.

Transporrent-enabled download

Here is an example of the proper X-Transporrent protocol (it does not yet work with Transporrent extension, as of v0.107):

Download test picture

Note that browsers without the Transporrent extension simply download the original file. The only overhead for them is an extra HTTP header (or about an extra 100 bytes in this case).