P2P Format

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The P2P format was created for the original PeerGuardian. It is simple and easily editable with any text editor, but is not very compact for transport in bandwidth limited situations. For that it is recommend you use the P2B format.

1 The format
2 Developing with P2P
3 See also
4 External links

The format

The P2P format had no official specification, but applications always follow the basic format:

Some organization:1.0.0.0-1.255.255.255
Another organization:8.0.0.0-8.255.255.255

The encoding of a P2P list is not formally defined, but many parsers assume they are ASCII or ISO-8859-1. PeerGuardian 2 assumes P2P lists are encoded in ISO-8859-1 if they do not begin with a UTF-8 BOM.

PeerGuardian 2 also treats lines which start with a # as a single-line comment and ignores empty lines, like so:

# This is a comment
Some organization:1.0.0.0-1.255.255.255
Another organization:8.0.0.0-8.255.255.255

# This is another comment
Yet another organization:16.0.0.0-16.255.255.255
And another:32.0.0.0-32.255.255.255