Connecting to a Gnutella-network

[phil hunt]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:33:19 GMT, Thomas Weholt <thomas at gatsoft.no> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've looked at the Gnutella Protocol, v.0.4, and wondered about trying to
>create an implementation in python. I'm a newbie when it comes to this sort
>of thing, but have created several simple to complex server types of
>applications using SocketServer and its friends like BaseHTTPServer etc.
>
>Has anybody tried to do this before? Does anybody have pointers for newbies
>like me in such a project ( how to start, how to connect to nodes on a
>gnutella network etc. )

I personally haven't, but there are several open-source Gnutella 
clients, just waiting there for you to inspect the code.

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