5 Dolda Connect is a peer-to-peer file sharing program, designed around
6 the Direct Connect protocol. It is written in a fashion that is
7 intended for flexibility and easy extension. It currently only
8 supports the normal Direct Connect protocol, but support is also
9 planned for the ADC protocol, and it can most likely be made to
10 support a great deal of other file sharing protocols as well.
14 Dolda Connect is built around a client-server model, in the way that
15 there is a server (daemon) program carrying out all the actual
16 file-sharing work, and a number of client programs that connect to the
17 server in order to command it and display its status. The interaction
18 between the client and server is carried out using a well-defined
19 protocol, making it fairly easy to write new clients for specialized
22 To make it easier to write new clients, a C library has been written
23 to make common functions easier, such as connecting, authenticating,
24 sending requests and parsing the responses. The C library also has a
25 wrapper module for GNU Guile, so that clients can be written in
26 Scheme. As of 0.3, there is also a Python module available seperately.
28 None of these are documented (yet), but there are a number of examples
29 scattered around the source tree, so it should not be awfully hard to
30 figure out how to do simple things. If in doubt, just contact the
35 So far, the following clients are distributed along with the source
38 * A Gtk2 based GUI, which loosely resembles a normal Direct Connect
40 * A GNOME panel applet for showing the status of current downloads in
42 * A Gaim chat plugin for chatting in hubs and writing private
43 messages (only for Gaim 2.0.0 and above).
44 * A command-line automatic downloader written in Scheme.
45 * A chat logger written in Scheme.
46 * A hub manager written in Scheme.
48 The GNOME applet and Gaim plugin are somewhat experimental. The applet
49 seems to be working well, but the installation have some quirks (since
50 GNOME does not normally look in /usr/local, care must be taken with
51 the installation prefix). The Gaim plugin seems to be leaking some
60 Documentation is still spotty at best. For any information not found
61 in the README or INSTALL files (or the source code, if you are a
62 programmer), contact the author.
66 Dolda Connect is primarily written by Fredrik Tolf. He can be reached
67 through the e-mail address <fredrik@dolda2000.com>. His homepage is
68 <http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/>.
72 This documented was last updated 2007-04-11, reflecting release 0.3 of