On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> I love the way that P2P brings out inventiveness, but I wish that somebody
> would work on making BitTorrent fit more easily into the flow of HTTP
> applications. The coolest thing about BT from my perspective is the way
> it inherits some of HTTP's trust model, given that the tracker host is
> more or less the same as the HTTP host.

Some people I know are interested in funding some open-source development
around integrating BT into both Apache and Mozilla; a module for Apache
that would create .torrent files and be a tracker automatically for
designated files, and modifying Mozilla such that deliveries of files in
some sort of application/x-bittorrent format (or whatever MIME type) are
transparently handled as if Mozilla was a BT client. There's lots more
details of course - it's not my project, but I've been asked if I know
anyone willing and capable to work on such a project, and thought I'd
mention it here. Let me know off-list if you are.

Brian