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Free Download Manager site redirected Linux users to malware for years
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FDM does some clever things to boost download speeds. It splits up a download into different chuncks, and somehow downloads them concurrently. It makes a big difference for large files (for example, Linux ISOs).
I guess many servers are capping speeds them. Makes sense since I almost never see downloads actually take advantage of my Gigabit internet speeds.
It could make multiple requests to the server, asking each request to resume starting at a certain byte.
The key thing to know is that a client can do an HTTP
HEAD
request to get just theContent-Length
of the file, and then performGET
requests with theRange
request header to fetch a specific chunk of a file.This mechanism was introduced in HTTP 1.1 (byte-serving).
Right? I've not thought about download speeds since the 2000's.
just grabbed a gig file - it would take about 8 minutes with a standard download in Firefox. Use a manager or axel and it will be 30 seconds. Then again speed isnt everything, its also nice to be able to have auto retry and completion.
I was just going to recommend this too; Use axel, aria2 or even ancient hget.