download only from safe sources
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download only from safe sources
It would be great to be able to download only from safe (* starred) sources and maybe later from TTH searches only. In my opition the starred transfers are much less corrupted than normal so i would like to use only them, and now i have to remove user from queue every time i see an unstarred transfer. I think many ppl would appreciate this feature.
Great work anyway.
Vojtech Kolacek
Great work anyway.
Vojtech Kolacek
Yes, you probably cant be sure, but 1) u can check the tag of the person ure downloading from for a version of DC++ 2) when tryng to establish connection u certainly know if the transfer is starred or not, so instead of starting unstarred transfer u can just abort the connection and remove user from queue. Havent seen the sources, but i guess its sumthing like that.Todi wrote:Well, yes, that's the whole point of "starred transfers". However, you never know if one will be until you start downloading.. so it's impossible to detect in advance.
Not mentioning 1 which is unpractical, I agree that 2 is not very ellegant, but i only get about 1 unstarred download in 20 since most people have up-to-date DC++. So for that 1/20 i have to go through all downloaded eps (2GB/day) and redownload corrupted. This feature would help me a lot till everyone has an uptodate client. It i had known how to write a patch (and had dotnet, of course), i would have done so long time agoTodi wrote:1) Sure, you can look if his tag says 0.400 or higher, but that's ugly, and not reliable at all.
2) True, but if i'm not mistaken you need a slot to detect that, and that would make it somewhat ugly too. But ok, it should work. Write a patch
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woko, if you get that many corrupted files, you should really look at your own hardware and software (running an old version of ZoneAlarm perhaps?).
http://dc.selwerd.nl/hublist.xml.bz2
http://www.b.ali.btinternet.co.uk/DCPlusPlus/index.html (TheParanoidOne's DC++ Guide)
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/dc (BSOD2600's Direct Connect FAQ)
http://www.b.ali.btinternet.co.uk/DCPlusPlus/index.html (TheParanoidOne's DC++ Guide)
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/dc (BSOD2600's Direct Connect FAQ)
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Transfers only from compressed sources makes some sense (not as much as only transfers-with-a-tth though, as that's a much better way of checking file integrity). However, there's at least one down side: You can queue files from search or file lists that have no users with safe/compressed transfers enabled. So, you could (essentially) orphan your downloads.
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