Hi everyone,

I try to download a magnet link from a private tracker(no DHT activated).
The torrent get the peers, but didnt get the metada.
If you enter on the peers and see the status for every peer was:
metadata xfer not supported

I want to understand what is that, someone can help me?

I try another magnet link foe the same website and go normaly and fast.

Thanks in advance.

I think magnet links shouldn't be used on a private tracker. All torrents on a private site will have the private "flag" set. This means a bittorrent program is not allowed to use DHT, PEX and LPD with this torrent. It is allowed to get peers only through the tracker. Although it isn't specified in magnet link protocol extension, some popular bittorrent programs won't send info dictionary (the torrent meta data) when the "private" flag is set. This is the reason why you get "metadata xfer not supported" status. Download torrent files instead of using magnet links on a private site.

Most likely you was lucky with the other magnet link that worked OK. Some bittorrent programs do send meta data for private torrents (Tixati included) and in my opinion, it is the correct way to handle magnet links.

Got this problem with "metadata xfer not supported"
Downloaded .torrent file of the same, worked fine.

I tried to download a torrent using a magnet link and got the same message from other peers on the torrent. Metadata transfer not supported. After reading this help page I downloaded the torrent file instead to my downloads folder and clicked on it. Now I was
able to connect with other peers on the torrent and begin downloading the files.

but how can i get the torrent file from torrent search engines where i only get the magnetic links?