Halite

Freeware – Eóin O’Callaghan – Windows

Halite (named after the mineral) is a C++ BitTorrent client based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. The program also relies heavily on the Boost libraries.

While still at an early state of development Halite is a functional BitTorrent client. So far its list of features is pretty standard but that is because I want to ensure it does the basic stuff well. That said it supports:

  • File selection and/or file priority specifications.
  • Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol).
  • IP filtering with eMule style ipfilter.dat import.
  • Protocol Encryption support.
  • Translations of the UI into a number of languages through the help of volunteers.
    (if you wish to help with a translation then please do)
  • Minimize to tray with transfer rate summary.
  • Full Unicode support through UTF-8 and native Windows wide-char strings.
  • Login support where tracker requires it.
  • Ability to edit trackers specified in the torrent.
  • Ability to create torrent files.
  • Transfer rate and connection limits both global and per-torrent.
  • UPnP and NAT-PMP support.

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January 17, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: File Sharing

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