Comments on Who's hacks?: Start torrent downloads from an iPhone

this is brilliant! thanks a lot for this solution....

2009-04-18T06:55:00.000-07:00

this is brilliant! thanks a lot for this solution. works perfect.

That usually means that you've got characters befo...

2009-01-07T01:26:00.000-08:00

That usually means that you've got characters before you open your php code ("<?php" must be the very first thing in the file). This is often just a space or tab, so insert you cursor right in front of the angle bracket and hit delete, and see if anything happens. Unfortunately, I've seen this error occur with no editable characters there, as an artifact of the text encoding. I believe I fixed this by using the free TextWrangler to change the encoding to "UTF-8, no BOM".

In any case, the script only sends headers to request a password. You can bypass the password request by adding it to the request url in the bookmarklet in this form: http://username:password@torrent.server.address/t.php.

Now I get an error message that says: Warning: can...

2009-01-06T20:31:00.000-08:00

Now I get an error message that says: Warning: cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Users/(username)/Sites/torrent-script.php:6) in /Users/(username)/Sites/torrent-script.php on line 8.
And it is repeated with line 9 also. I don't mean to bother you with all my troubles, but possibly a bug? I've checked the code and reread your page multiple times, but nothing seems to work.

The www user won't show up in the UI, it's not int...

2009-01-04T23:13:00.000-08:00

The www user won't show up in the UI, it's not intended for use by users. The only way to do it in the finder is to give "everyone" write access. Technically, this is a potential security risk, but it's extremely unlikely that anyone will find it, especially if you disable the guest account in your Accounts prefpane.

and when I try to add another user, nothing but my...

2009-01-04T19:31:00.000-08:00

and when I try to add another user, nothing but my user and admin shows up in the "User's and Groups" section.

I opened the info pane, but the www user doesn't s...

2009-01-04T19:25:00.000-08:00

I opened the info pane, but the www user doesn't show up. Actually, only me, staff, and everyone shows up. What's this? I've seen computers with a long list. How do I allow access to the www user?

Running shell code from php can be finicky. Make s...

2009-01-04T09:12:00.000-08:00

Running shell code from php can be finicky. Make sure that the folder exists and that your www user has write access. A permissions error will cause it to silently fail.

allright, so I've been fiddling with this for a fe...

2009-01-04T05:33:00.000-08:00

allright, so I've been fiddling with this for a few hours and I think I've got something wrong. The problem probably is that I don't have much experience with PHP and almost none with Java script. I think it is with the PHP though.

passthru('curl -H "Referer: '.$_SERVER['$HTTP_REFERER'].'" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10" -o /Users/Dakota/Sites/t/remote.torrent "'.

Is this accurate? I'm a little confused about the folder path.