erickutcher
commented
3 years ago Do you have a link to the zip file so I can try it out?
- Active download limit specifies the maximum number of simultaneous downloads. Anything more than that gets queued until one of the active downloads finishes.
- Default download parts is the number of connections that each download can use to download a file. A download can be split into parts and each part can be downloaded with its own connection. The idea is that if a single connection is limited to a certain speed, then multiple connections will cumulatively add up and make the download go faster.
- Retry incomplete downloads means that if a download fails to complete, it'll retry it from where it left off. This is the problem you've been experiencing. Set it to 100 and you won't have to manually start the download after it stops or times out.
- The timeout stops the download when there's been no data received from the server after x amount of seconds.
- Maximum redirects is a limit on the number of times a URL will redirect to another URL. Sometimes URL A can redirect to URL B and URL B redirects back to URL A. An infinite redirection would be bad. This prevents that.
- Default download speed limit sets the speed limit in the Add URL(s) window. It throttles the download's speed.
- The SSL / TLS version should not be changed. It has to do with establishing encrypted connections.
The difference between Start and Restart is that Start resumes from the download's current position. Restart starts it from the beginning. I suppose I could change the menu from Start to Resume if it's incomplete. EDIT: Paused downloads use Resume instead of Start. All incomplete downloads that have no active connection use Start. /EDIT That being said, if you attempt to restart a download, it will prompt you for confirmation.
Here's some documentation: https://erickutcher.github.io/#HTTP_Downloader
Barkfin
char101
I tried downloading a 20GB zip archive and for some reason the server kept breaking the connection, but HTTP downloader never tried to start up again. I had to keep restarting it repeatedly to get the complete download. Why doesn't it have a function to auto-restart? Or does it? I don't know what all these settings are about in Options. For example, under Connection it says: Active download limit: 10 (10 what? 10 simultaneous downloads I guess?) Default download parts: 1 (what? I don't know what this means) Retry incomplete downloads: 2 (does this limit to 2 tries, or only 2 of the 10 simultaneous downloads?) Timeout (seconds): 60 (Does this mean it quits trying after 60 seconds? Because I've observed this program drop a download instantaneously.) Maximum redirects: 10 (I have a vague feeling that this might refer to a download link that refers to a second, to a third, and so on up to a tenth link, but I don't really know what this means.) Default download speed limit (bytes/s): 0 (I think this is a throttling control so that downloads don't maximize the internet connection?) Default SSL / TLS version: TLS 1.2 (I really don't know what this means)
My biggest problem with this program is I'll come back to it and the download has "Stopped" or "Timed Out" and it just sits there indefinitely until I right-click on the download and order it to "start". Also: what's the difference with Start and Restart. If know if I click Start it'll open the connection and resume downloading. If I click Restart is that going to delete everything and Restart the download back from the first byte? Listen if you download a 20GB file and it quits and you only have a few kB to go, and you click Restart instead of Start and it deletes everything, I'd be pretty miffed. Especially when the program doesn't say what anything means.
I guess I could sum up my questions as, "is there any way to document what all this program does and what all its options are a bit more completely, for the layperson?" Because it looks like a pretty good program and I don't really trust FDM and would definitely use this, except it keeps halting downloads all the time and requires manual hand-holding. It's like, what's the point, I may as well try to download from within Mozilla.