Bitflu is a bittorrent client written in Perl by Adrian Ulrich. It's very lightweight and is well suited for installation on small machines like your linux mini firewall that you have built with that old mother board and that 400MHz CPU you found in a closet. Its memory usage is impressively low: 15/20M with many active torrents; nothing to share with other clients occupation (150M + ).
Bitflu comes in two releases: a stable and a development one. We need the second one which is a new rebirth for bitflu, being a completely rewriting from scratch of everything with a deeper modular design in mind (even core functions of bitflu has been implemented as plugins). Stable version included a web interface, while the development one has just a textual telnet interface.
And here enters my plugin. AdminWeb.pm. It's basically a Perl
plugin which provides a nice web interface to most of Bitflu functions. You can
upload a .torrent by specifying the URL on the web or the path on server
(Adrian told me that URL fetching will be included in bitflu and so will
disappear from my plugin). You can monitor downloads by expanding download
section, you can commit a download when finished and see its progress in
percentage. You can query bitflu about installed plugins and other
informations. By installing Filesys::DfPortable
To install: download the plugin and simply extract the archive in
your bitflu_dir/plugins/Bitflu/ directory and edit
bitflu.conf by adding Bitflu::AdminWeb to entry
plugins. If the entry (or the whole file) does not exists and you feel
yourself hacker enough, you can also edit bitflu.pl itself by
adding plugin name to internal list (search for
"$self->{conf}->{plugins}" and edit the value pointed by
this key).
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