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Halite

Halite Screenshot
Developer(s)	Eóin O'Callaghan
Stable release	0.3.2  (2009-11-11; 18 days ago) [+/−]
Preview release	0.3.2 RC2 / 2009-10-7; 53 days ago
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	BitTorrent client
License	Boost Software License
Website	http://www.binarynotions.com/halite-bittorrent-client

Halite^[1] is an open-source, lightweight^[2] BitTorrent client written by Irishman Eóin O'Callaghan^[3]. It is written in C++ using Libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software, and Boost libraries. Halite is licenced under Boost Software License[1], so it is free software. Halite is named after the mineral.

Contents 1 Features 2 Development 3 Requirements 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Features

Halite is in an early stage of development^[1] supporting basic features:

• Multiple downloads
• Displays detailed information for the selected torrent
• Transfer rate and connection limits both global and per-torrent^[1]
• Minimize to tray with transfer rate summary^[1]
• Association with ".torrent" files^[3]
• Option to limit the number of instances to one^[3]
• Estimated time remaining indicator^[3]
• Tabbed interface^[3]
• Login support where tracker requires it^[1]
• Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline Kademlia DHT protocol)^[1]
• IP filtering with eMule ipfilter.dat import^[1]
• Protocol encryption support^[1]
• Ability to modify trackers^[1]
• UPnP and NAT-PMP support^[1]
• Ability to create torrent files

[edit] Development

Halite is in active development and is gaining some popularity as one of the various alternative, free, resource friendly BitTorrent clients available for Windows^[2].

Planned features for the future include both full proxy support^[1] and the option to ban peers.

[edit] Requirements

Halite requires Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista or Server 2008^[3]. Older versions of Windows aren't supported because Halite is written using Unicode^[4], and Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me don't have native Unicode support^[5].

Halite uses WTL toolkit, so it can only be run on Windows operating systems. The Halite developer considers it is unlikely that Halite will support other operating systems.^[6]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Halite webpage
• SourceForge project page

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