Why does my Transmission client tell me my tracker list contains invalid URLs?

Question

When I type in custom trackers into the tracker list, and try to save the list I get a message saying:

List contains invalid URLs

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

This was the first link hat I found on google... after trying about a dozen from a list i found online I realized why I was getting this message. Windows uses a carriage return and newline to denote an end of line, where unix only uses a newline. I opened the file in my IDE (geany) and converted the line endings and it worked for the entire list.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Probably because it includes udp trackers, which aren't supported in Transmission until version 2.30.

Answer 3

For whatever reason, trackers (in my case) had to be added one by one. Adding them all at once would cause that error message.