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Fail to open magnet link #497

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ianjennings opened this issue May 13, 2016 · 2 comments
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Fail to open magnet link #497

ianjennings opened this issue May 13, 2016 · 2 comments
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ianjennings commented May 13, 2016 •
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What version of WebTorrent Desktop? (See the 'About WebTorrent' menu)

0.3.3

What operating system and version?

Windows 10 32 x64
node v5.11.1

What did you do?

Failed to install from prebuilt package (#491)

  • download 0.3.3 release from GitHub releases
  • npm install && npm start
  • click on magnet link (magnet:?xt=urn:btih:02767050e0be2fd4db9a2ad6c12416ac806ed6ed&dn=tears_of_steel_1080p.webm&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.btorrent.xyz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.fastcast.nz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openwebtorrent.com&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.webtorrent.io)
  • windows asks to open electron
  • screenshot below displayed as error

What did you expect to happen?

Torrent file loaded and streamed

What actually happened?

screenshot 6
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Pasting the magnet link works correctly

@ianjennings ianjennings changed the title Fail to open magnet link Windows Fail to open magnet link May 13, 2016
@feross feross added this to the v0.4.0 milestone May 13, 2016
feross added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2016
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Windows: Fix handler registration for development version of app
1023337 
Closes #497.
feross added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2016
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Windows: Fix handler registration for development version of app
30f45b7 
Closes #497.
feross added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2016
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Windows: Fix handler registration for development version of app
468defe 
Closes #497.
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feross commented May 13, 2016

I figured out what was causing this. If you git pull && npm install and try again it should work now. If you're curious, the PR that fixes it is here: #508

mathiasvr pushed a commit to mathiasvr/webtorrent-desktop that referenced this issue May 26, 2016
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Windows: Fix handler registration for development version of app
ee4b84f 
Closes webtorrent#497.
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