Recently, I came across a fact that some of the P2P clients like BitTorrent and Vuze support HTTP/FTP also as part of their content source. That is really cool, cause it gives us an advantage of having a peer which does not upload data based on Tit-for-Tat, and if they are running an HTTP or FTP process, most probably their uptime will be higher compared to other Peers in the swarm.
Yeah, but don't be too happy, cause the server side involves a script to avoid overloading the web server process as a precautionary measure for malicious attacks.So you can't just be requesting content continuously, but carefully timed request can help us to download content without actually uploading any data to any other peer.
I do not know ,as to how many users actually host via P2P & HTTP/FTP simultaneously .May be corporations like Ubuntu, VMWare may support this ,since they can afford the servers.
The metadata key is 'url-list' for the .torrent file.
For the TechSavy check out the below links for detailed info and specs:
[1] http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html
[2] http://www.bittornado.com/docs/webseed-spec.txt
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