I observed a curious behaviour of qbittorent but I do not know whether it is a bug or the normal behaviour.
Let us consider two situations: qbittorrent is already launched or it is not. In the last case the behaviour of qbittorrent is the same with the two commands below: qbittorrent is launched and the add torrent dialog box is automatically opened with the specified torrent. But, when qbittorrent is already launched, the behaviour differs Depending on whether we specificed a file or an URL.
- If I launch the command (in a konsole for example) and qbittorrent is already opened, nothing happens
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qbittorrent afile.torrent
- If I launch the command and qbittorrent is already opened,the add torrent dialog box is opened with the specified torrent
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qbittorrent http://urltofile.torrent
I found this because I used to use firefox to browse the web and the add torrent dialog box of qbittorrent opened automatically when I clicked on a torrent link. But I recently whenged my default browser to Chromium and I found that when qbittorrent is already launched the add torrent dialog box is not opened.
I supposed the difference is probably (but I'm not sure) that firefox send an URL to qbittorrent and Chromium sends to qbittorrent the path to the local file it downloaded. (However Firefox seems to download the file also, so I do not know what it sends exactly to qbittorrent).
What do you think?
Thank you