KTorrent Web Interface Port Forward

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 02:13 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 21:47 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> >> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 19:06 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> >> Does anyone have the web interface working for KTorrent when forwarded by UPnP?
> >> >
> >> > Late in responding as I've been travelling, but (exactly for that
> >> > reason) I left Ktorrent running and opened my firewall to the web
> >> > interface so I could control it from afar. I have to say it worked
> >> > really well, except for suddenly not responding in the last couple of
> >> > days (which appears to have been related to a plasma crash since the
> >> > machine didn't lose connectivity).
> >> >
> >> > I have UPnP turned on so it can agree with the router on what ports to
> >> > open. Is that what you're asking about?
> >>
> >> I was asking specifically about the web interface... did you have to
> >> open up a port on your router/firewall to the ktorrent machine for
> >> it's web interface? Or did you check the box to let UPnP handle that?
> >
> > I checked the box in the Ktorrent Settings dialogue (this has nothing to
> > do with the web interface, it's just for normal BT use).
> >
> > I don't normally run web services on this machine so I also used
> > system-config-firewall to open a specific TCP port, and configured that
> > same port in the router (a Belkin) to allow HTTP in. This means
> > specificing that port instead of 80 when browsing from the Web of
> > course. I also set a strong password.
> 
> I see, what I expected to happen was after checking UPnP on the web
> interface, it would ask the router to forward that port to it.
> 
> That did not happen.

AFAIK it isn't supposed to. The UPnP stuff is strictly for telling the
router which ports Ktorrent itself is going to use for BT traffic. As I
said, it has nothing to do with the Web interface.

poc