Connecting to a Gnutella-network

[Henning Schröder]

Hi!

> I've looked at the Gnutella Protocol, v.0.4, and wondered about trying to
> create an implementation in python. [..]
> 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 started a module. Currently it cannot serve files and it's not thread-safe
(any help?)
but it can connect and search for content. I used the protocol specification
to implement it. See http://www.gubba.org/modules/gnutella.py
It's probably a good start ;-)

Henning