[bittorrent] Use of reserved bits in bt handshake
Olaf van der Spek
olafvdspek at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 11:20:01 EDT 2005
On 7/21/05, Justin Cormack <justin at street-vision.com> wrote:
> Unless I have an obscure bug corrupting these bits it looks like
> compatibility is dead...
Why?
> But you dont know if the other party accepts them or not, it will
> just disconnect if it doesnt and probably will never reconnect. So
> for compatibility you cant use them. Basically you cant make a
> backwards compatible client.
Why will it disconnect?
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