Where i can find up to date gnutella specs

Manifest0 · #1 (**permalink**) February 6th, 2021

Hi!

As the title says, where i can find up to date gnutella specs?

Where can i find the protocol specs If i want to start my own client?

Regards,
Manifest0

Lord of the Rings · #2 (**permalink**) February 6th, 2021

I'm not sure about up-to-date specs per se. Nothing published about any advancements on the protocol in recent times that the gnutella forums has become aware of.

For older reference there's https://www.gnutellaforums.com/gener...tml#post378953

Posted the details I saved from any now defunct web links in arne_bab's post (those I was able to find.)

I suspect this is still the method you should be using now. Nothing dramatic has changed since. If it has it's probably in GTK-Gnutella's area.

Manifest0 · #3 (**permalink**) February 6th, 2021

I thought that there were more developments as gtk-gnutella seems to keep evolving.

Thanks for the info.

Lord of the Rings · #4 (**permalink**) February 6th, 2021

GTK-G's developer might be worth contacting in regards to GTK-G's development beyond what is in the papers. I am aware they now do UDP confirmations & I'm not so sure other clients do this (similar to how TCP requires this.) This obviously improves network communications with minimal extra bandwidth.
(Whereas TCP is both traffic & bandwidth demanding and significantly slower of course.)