"Paul W. Frields" stickster@gmail.com wrote:
Many BitTorrent clients (including Ktorrent) do not perform automatic verification. They must be asked to check data integrity.
Are you certain about that? This is part of the BitTorrent protocol itself AIUI, not the application level. The only want for *any* BitTorrent client to know it got a correct, complete chunk is to check the sha1sum for that chunk. Which means that, by definition, if you have completed all chunks, your file has been automatically validated. I think this text is correct as written.
Maybe it is a bug. I have seen such behavior in Ktorrent-2.2.5 and 3.1.2. The former has tabbed windows for downloads and uploads. After download of a file finishes, it moves to the upload window. Here manual data integrity checks may cause the download to move back and get corrected. Once I skipped the final manual check and got a bad Suse iso (corrected it with ktorrent again, only after k3b complained).
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A. Mani