Howie Vegter
hrv2101 AT columbia DOT edu
Columbia University
CS 6901, Projects in Computer Science
December 19, 2005
NoTorrent, A Peer-to-Peer Web Caching System

Note:
You must use Java 1.5 or higher.

To install:
unpack notorrent.tgz file (using tar xzvf notorrent.tgz) to get:
NoTorrent.jar, README, nttrack, and ntclient
nttrack and ntclient are helper scripts to make it easier to start
the tracker and the client, respectively.

To run tracker:
./nttrack
or
java -cp NoTorrent.jar notorrent.tracker.Tracker [-h]
use optional -h flag for help

To run client:
First start NoTorrent client proxy:
./ntclient
or
java -jar NoTorrent.jar -ta TRACKER_ADDRESS -tp TRACKER_PORT [-h]
replace TRACKER_ADDRESS with tracker's address.  e.g. 1.2.3.4
replace TRACKER_PORT with tracker's port.  e.g. 4242
use optional -h flag for help

Then configure your web browser to use NoTorrent as its HTTP proxy:
To do this in Mozilla Firefox:
go to Edit > Preferences > General > Connection Settings.  
Select "Manual proxy configuration."  
Specify HTTP Proxy as localhost.  
Specify port as 6901 (or whatever you set it to be with a command line argument).