Looking for some good books or technical resources for a detailed understanding of how Bittorrent works? It would probably involve books on Network programming, P2P programming, and other topics.
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Edited to make the programming relation more apparent. So to speak. – George Stocker Dec 21 '08 at 17:47
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The first place to look would probably be BitTorrent.org. It lists the standard specification as well as a lot of the extensions that have become de facto standards (most of which have been developed by µTorrent or Azereus).
A thorough guide can also be found here, though it might not be as up-to-date as the first link.
Keep in mind that most of the complexity with bittorrent relates to the client implementations, whereas the server ("tracker") is fairly trivial.
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what are some of the issues related to client implementations? is there a place to read about this and what programming techniques are used to overcome these hurdles? – joshjdevl Dec 21 '08 at 01:18