by Martin Brinkmann on February 21, 2018 in Internet - Last Update: February 23, 2018 - 21 comments
Oct 21, 2008 - How to Access your Torrent Client & Download Torrents Remotely. Download µtorrent Web UI (Direct Link) and follow these instructions to set.
uTorrent Web is a web-based client of the still-popular uTorrent BitTorrent application. The developers of uTorrent announced plans to release a web-based version of uTorrent in early 2017.
Note: uTorrent Web is blocked by Windows Defender and possibly also other security software as potentially unwanted software. You may need to exclude the program or move it out of quarantine to download and use it.
The uTorrent Web client is available for Windows right now. It runs in the background on the Windows machine and starts a locally hosted server that you interact with using your browser of choice.
uTorrent Web
The app loads a basic interface on start that you may use to run searches on Google. You may want to click on the x-icon to close it to display the full interface.
From there it is possible to add magent links or torrent files using drag & drop, and download the files to the system right away. You may stream video content right away; uTorrent Web comes with a media player that you may use for that purpose. What that means is that you can use the service to watch the video while it is downloaded to the local system.
This is not a unique feature but some users may like it nevertheless. It is a good idea to check the options before you start to add torrent files or magnet links to uTorrent Web.
The settings list options to change the default download directory, auto-start options, and upload and download speed limits. The settings are fairly limited when you compare what is available to uTorrent's settings or the settings of other BitTorrent clients such as qBitTorrent.
Out of the top of my head, important settings that uTorrent Web lacks include blocking IP addresses, changing ports, configuring proxies, checking peers and seeders, schedule bandwidth or ratio per torrent, or tracker management.
Closing Words
uTorrent Web is a work in progress. It is clearly labeled as beta and it would be unfair to judge it by comparing it to established BitTorrent clients. The client is easy to use and does not require any knowledge of ports or other advanced topics that come along with many BitTorrent setups.
While that is certainly good, its lack of options is concerning as it gives users little control over the whole operation. Besides that, I cannot really think of many scenarios where I'd prefer to use a web-based client over a desktop software.
Several security issues were discovered by Google Project Zero wizard Travis Ormandy who discovered that attackers may abuse the issues to download malware to user computers, change download folder locations, or obtain the RPC server's 'authentication secret' to gain complete control over the uTorrent Web Client.
The most recent versions of uTorrent Web and uTorrent are patched.
Now You: Which torrent client do you use, if any?
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Utorrent Web Ui and custom download paths question
I have a home Nas I use for all of my media/games/personal stuff that is running Windows Home server, which is based off of server 2003. For simplicity's sake, I set up utorrent on it and configured the web ui so I can access my downloads from every computer in my house and my phone or any other system outside of my lan. I love the setup, but I've been grabbing several large torrents lately and I want to permanently seed them once they are in their proper directories outside of my main unsorted downloads folder. My plan was to move them and then re-add the torrent in utorrent since there are no advanced options per torrent accessible from the web ui, and therefore no way to move them through utorrent. I updated to the latest web ui because I read that choosing your destination when you first add a torrent was added as a feature. When I add a torrent, this comes up but the dropdown box only has the default folder as an option with no way to add another path. I can't just log in via remote desktop connection to add the torrent because I run utorrent as a service and if I open it via the desktop it just opens another instance.
Is there anyone else out there who uses the web ui and has this problem?
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