p2p news / p2pnet: µTorrent is fast is now established as one of the leading indie p2p file sharing applications, but the development team is still coming up with innovations, the latest being a WebUI (web-based user interface) to allow users to remotely manage their BitTorrent downloads.

It’s still under wraps in alpha testing and when the UI goes final, "you’ll need to install a bunch of extra ‘add-on’ files to make it work, as the WebUI currently takes up about 110 KiB of disk space after compression – almost as large as µT itself," says Scott Young on his blog.

He adds, "If you want remote access to your BitTorrent client now, there are several BT clients offering some sort of WebUI: Azureus (via the Swing Web Interface plugin), ABC and G3Torrent, though apparently the functionality is quite limited and some of the clients are no longer under active development (I haven’t tried them out myself). You could also try using a VNC system (like TightVNC), which is what I would recommend, though it’s a bit more bandwidth-intensive than a real WebUI – so you can keep using µTorrent."

µTorrent author and programmer Ludvig Strigeus, aka Ludde, from Sweden, and Canadian project leader Serge Paquet (Vurlix) recently did a Q&A with p2pnet’s Alex H.

In it, "There are three reasons that lead to the development of µTorrent," said Paquet. "First, I got sick of large, slow and inefficient applications hogging all my resources so I wanted to build something tiny and powerful. Second, I was interested in the BitTorrent protocol, because it is simple, effective and relatively well documented (and I also downloaded a lot using it). Making an efficient BitTorrent client seemed like a good place to start. Finally, Ludde was looking for a project to work on and liked the idea. µTorrent was born.

And, "I’m somewhat obsessed by making tiny and resource friendly programs, and when Serge brought up the idea I thought sounded really interesting," said Strigeus. "I didn’t plan to make a full featured client at that point, I just wanted to learn about the protocol and it seemed like a fun and challenging task to make a resource friendly BitTorrent client."

Also See:
blog – µTorrent’s WebUI: monitor your downloads remotely, February 11, 2006
Q&A – p2pnet uTorrent interview, October 15, 2006

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