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Urls can now be claimed by remotes. This will allow creating, for example, a external special remote that handles magnet: and *.torrent urls.

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Worked on [[todo/extensible_addurl]] today. When `git annex addurl` is run,
remotes will be asked if they claim the url, and whichever remote does will
be used to download it, and location tracking will indicate that remote
contains the object. This is a masive 1000 line patch touching 30 files,
including follow-on changes in `rmurl` and `whereis` and even `rekey`.
It should now be possible to build an external special remote that handles
*.torrent and magnet: urls and passes them off to a bittorrent client for
download, for example.
Another use for this would be to make an external special remote that
uses youtube-dl or some other program than quvi for downloading web videos.
The builtin quvi support could probably be moved out of the web special
remote, to a separate remote. I haven't tried to do that yet.