Monotorrent UDP error

Question

I tried to torrent files with this void:

        public void DownloadTorrent(string path)
        {
            Torrent torrent = Torrent.Load(path);

            Console.WriteLine(torrent.Files[0]);
            TorrentManager manager = new TorrentManager(torrent, savePath, new TorrentSettings());
            engine.Register(manager);
            manager.HashCheck(true);
            manager.Start();
        }

but every time I load a torrent file, I get this error:

Unsupported protocol udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
Unsupported protocol udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce

does someone knows how to solve this

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

MonoTorrent hasn't seen a commit in almost three years and even before that you can see that it was very sparsely worked on after 2010. It won't have all the nice features that a modern torrent client will have, just saying.

Anyway, the UDP Tracker Protocol was first published in 2008 so it's a fair chance that there actually is some support. Looking through their commits on github shows us that c900c7c actually added udp tracker support back in 2009. A quick check in TrackerFactory.cs also shows that the support still is there.

There is however a pull request regarding the udp tracker protocol that hasn't been merged (and probably never will) so I'd say that your best bet would be to clone or fork the repository (or one of the many other forks ) and build it yourself with that patch added.