{"id":18,"date":"2015-10-24T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T21:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thescorpius.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-10-28T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:46:39","slug":"cookies-support-on-qbittorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thescorpius.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/24\/cookies-support-on-qbittorrent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookies support on qBittorrent"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"qbittorrent\"<\/a><\/div>\n
Like most people I used to use \u03bcTorrent<\/a> to download files using the\u00a0Bittorrent<\/em> protocol or like\u00a0they say now, to\u00a0download torrents<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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Since version 3.x of\u00a0\u03bcTorrent<\/a>\u00a0some\u00a0people like me got away from it, since it became\u00a0bloatware<\/em>. That all started when it was purchased by\u00a0BitTorrent, Inc., and the client has gone down hill from there. \u00a0It’s still the most popular torrent client on the planet though.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So I moved to qBittorrent<\/a>\u00a0which is a wonderful client, but it lacks a feature that I really use and need: the ability to specify cookies<\/i> when downloading a torrent from a URL using the WebUI.<\/p>\n

I also wanted another little feature that I really need: the forms have to support the\u00a0autocomplete<\/em> feature of the internet browsers. \u00a0So when I fill a field in a form, the browser saves it for future use. For this to work the forms need to be\u00a0actual forms<\/strong>, and you’ll see\u00a0qBittorrent<\/a>\u00a0doesn’t use them.<\/p>\n

Since\u00a0qBittorrent<\/a>\u00a0is an Open Source project, it’s pretty easy to implement new features on.<\/p>\n

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Note:\u00a0All this post is be based in\u00a0qBittorrent<\/a>\u00a0beta version 3.3.0 + gitd60f2fc<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the download page located at src\/webui\/www\/public\/download.html:<\/p>\n

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict\/\/EN\" \r\n\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">\r\n<html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<head>\r\n        <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" \/>\r\n        <title>QBT_TR(Add Torrent Link)QBT_TR<\/title>\r\n        <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"css\/style.css\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\r\n        <script type=\"text\/javascript\" \r\n                src=\"scripts\/mootools-1.2-core-yc.js\" \r\n                charset=\"utf-8\">\r\n        <\/script>\r\n        <script type=\"text\/javascript\" \r\n                src=\"scripts\/download.js\" \r\n                charset=\"utf-8\">\r\n        <\/script>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<center>\r\n        <h2 class=\"vcenter\">\r\n                QBT_TR(Download Torrents from their URLs or Magnet links)QBT_TR\r\n        <\/h2>\r\n        <textarea id=\"urls\" rows=\"10\"><\/textarea>\r\n        QBT_TR(Only one link per line)QBT_TR\r\n        <input type=\"button\" value=\"QBT_TR(Download)QBT_TR\" id=\"downButton\"\/>\r\n<\/center>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\r\n<\/pre>\n
As you can see it’s not a real HTML form. \u00a0It’s just a single field with a button. Then there’s some\u00a0JavaScript to make a REST request to download the URL that the user\u00a0types in the field. This is src\/webui\/www\/public\/scripts\/download.js:<\/p>\n
window.addEvent('domready', function() {\r\n    $('urls').focus();\r\n    $('downButton').addEvent('click', function(e) {\r\n        new Event(e).stop();\r\n        new Request({\r\n            url: 'command\/download',\r\n            method: 'post',\r\n            data: {\r\n                urls: $('urls').value\r\n            },\r\n            onComplete: function() {\r\n                window.parent.document.getElementById('downloadPage').\r\n                    parentNode.removeChild(\r\n                        window.parent.document.getElementById('downloadPage')\r\n                    );\r\n            }\r\n        }).send();\r\n    });\r\n});<\/pre>\n
Since it is not a real form, this won’t allow my browser to save the fields so I can reuse them. \u00a0I don’t want to\u00a0copy\/paste the same\u00a0cookie<\/em> over and over, so I had to modify this into a real form. Here’s what I want:<\/p>\n
\"qbitorrent-download\"<\/a><\/p>\n
And this is what I came up with:<\/p>\n
\r\n\tQBT_TR(Add Torrent Link)QBT_TR\r\n\t