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Originally Posted by symphonybug
Like you said Sir. Ditched IDM...
Logged into UBUNTU, used wget to download the file... Never ever thought it was due to the download manager which is revered like god.exe in Windows world...
PS: Although I must admit that its a damn old IDM version.. They always asks me to update and I skip... also I have lately experienced bad iso of ubuntu being downloaded. Which i thought was the problem from "their" end... now i understand the drawbacks of the speedy looking IDM..
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There is nothing wrong with using something like IDM (IIRC I have used the similar tool Free Download Manager on Windows).
My go-to download tool on Linux is aria2 (the most awesome CLI download program of all), which also supports parallel downloads and cleverly figures out when to (try to) resume a download... the trick is knowing when a server doesn't support a feature which, ideally, all servers would support.
And FWIW, aria2 gracefully handles servers which don't support resumed downloads -- it doesn't create a control file, which means it won't by default try resuming, and also doesn't open multiple connections even when told to try.
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knc1, at least one of the official mirrors (US-East) does support partial content --mediafire.
But the Europe one doesn't, the primary one uses a confirmation screen so no CLI downloads anyway, and the US-West mirror keeps giving 503 errors.
So, err, not strictly true? But still very good advice, since it is unpredictable.
Also, why on earth don't more download tools, especially something like Safari, know how to recognize servers which don't support partial content?
