Alex wrote:

Usher wrote:What about proper https support in FDM for Linux and Android?

Hello, what do you mean?

I haven't tested the newest builds yet, so I can only link some related issues reported earlier:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18217&p=48189&hilit=https#p48189
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17900&p=48167&hilit=https#p48167

In general: FDM cannot connect to some https sites. In such cases FDM cannot get file size and reports "Network error" (or other errors depending on proxy settings), so It may depend on proxy settings or on the server-side cryptography methods.

If the server allows http connection, you can change the link from https to http and all goes OK. But if the server uses HSTS and forces https connections, downloads are unavailable.

FDM needs a better handling of large files.. On a 1Gbps line downloading anything over 10GB, the download manager makes literal 3 to 5 seconds pauses, the download speed drops to 0KB/s the disk activity drops to 0%. The same thing used to happen with version 5.x, that's why I stopped using this DM. I used Uget with Aria2 for a while and it has no issues downloading large files at 110MB/s without pausing like FDM does.

Usher wrote:In general: FDM cannot connect to some https sites.

I believe there are no such sites.

touf34 wrote:FDM needs a better handling of large files.. On a 1Gbps line downloading anything over 10GB, the download manager makes literal 3 to 5 seconds pauses, the download speed drops to 0KB/s the disk activity drops to 0%. The same thing used to happen with version 5.x, that's why I stopped using this DM. I used Uget with Aria2 for a while and it has no issues downloading large files at 110MB/s without pausing like FDM does.

Hello,
It seems that the file system of the disk you are downloading to does not support sparse files. So your OS spends time allocating disk space for the large file. While it doing this, no writes to the disk are possible. That's why FDM downloads it so bad. Are you sure you compared FDM6 and Uget in the same circumstances (same PC, same OS, same disk, etc.) ? What is your OS and the file system on the disk you download to? It's possible that in the first place Uget just downloads only the very beginning parts of the file. Then it advances a bit further. It's possible to make FDM to do so, but I don't know if we really need to.

Alex wrote:

Usher wrote:In general: FDM cannot connect to some https sites.

I believe there are no such sites.

There is one word missing: NOW, after many unspecified fixes. However, I haven't finished my tests yet, there still may be some problems…

BTW. Would you be so kind and provide more detailed changelog, please? It should contain list of all bugfixes for problems reported by users and of all new features proposed by users. Let people see the dev team really listen to and works for FDM users.

Alex wrote:

touf34 wrote:FDM needs a better handling of large files.. On a 1Gbps line downloading anything over 10GB, the download manager makes literal 3 to 5 seconds pauses, the download speed drops to 0KB/s the disk activity drops to 0%. The same thing used to happen with version 5.x, that's why I stopped using this DM. I used Uget with Aria2 for a while and it has no issues downloading large files at 110MB/s without pausing like FDM does.

Hello,
It seems that the file system of the disk you are downloading to does not support sparse files. So your OS spends time allocating disk space for the large file. While it doing this, no writes to the disk are possible. That's why FDM downloads it so bad. Are you sure you compared FDM6 and Uget in the same circumstances (same PC, same OS, same disk, etc.) ? What is your OS and the file system on the disk you download to? It's possible that in the first place Uget just downloads only the very beginning parts of the file. Then it advances a bit further. It's possible to make FDM to do so, but I don't know if we really need to.

Hi,

I tried both yesterday, Aria2 and FDM, same site one Download manager after the other, both with 5 threads. Aria2 doesn't stops for the whole 10GB download file, while FDM starts making pauses when the file is around 30% completed to fully completed.

Sparse is enabled on my file system.





These are the settings I use in my aria2.conf.

Using trunc or falloc file allocation doesn't pause the downloads mid-completion like FDM does.

I'll try to find a way to record/log disk and network activity when I download with FDM later when I have the time.

Apparently I stayed away a bit to long and it logged me out.
I'm the person who replied above.

Nevermind, I fixed the issue. It wasn't related to the file system. It was because of the antivirus. Disabling the antivirus didn't fix the issue when I tried yesterday, neither did whitelisting FDM in protocol filtering and SSL filtering/scanning, like it did with others Download managers when I've had issues in the past.

Today I just uninstalled it, just to be really sure it was not related to the antivirus, and FDM started downloading without pausing....

If you have issues with download randomly pausing for a couple of seconds when downloading a file with FDM, whitelist FDM in the "Real Time file-system Protection" --> "Process exclusion" (add FDM in there to whitelist)

Thanks and sorry for the trouble.

touf34 wrote:It was because of the antivirus.

What antivirus?

Sorry I forgot to write the name. It's ESET Internet Security version 13.2.18.0.

Thanks.

Usher wrote:BTW. Would you be so kind and provide more detailed changelog, please?

It's boring, but OK, we'll try.

Alex wrote:

Usher wrote:In general: FDM cannot connect to some https sites.

I believe there are no such sites.

HTTPS support in FDM for Linux hasn't changed, I'm afraid. FDM still reports "Network error" (when set to "System proxy") or "Timeout" (when set to "No proxy") for HTTPS downloads, including download from FDM site. What is more, Mint Update Manager reports problems with TLS for FDM site. Tested on fully updated Linux Mint 18.3.

FDM for Android seems to work OK with HTTPS now, but FDM extension for Firefox doesn't work with Firefox 80 for Android. The browser provided with FDM doesn't have password manager (you have to remember credentials for all bookmarked sites) and doesn't support video play (you have to dig out video download links manually or using other means like savefrom.net site).

Alex wrote:

Usher wrote:BTW. Would you be so kind and provide more detailed changelog, please?

It's boring, but OK, we'll try.

Changelogs are never boring for people reporting problems and waiting for info that the bugs are fixed. You shouldn't ignore users' expectations.

Hi,

Is there a way to set the number of threads per file instead of per server? When I try to download multiples files on my seedbox, FDM starts the first file/download with the max thread per server, and doesn't even bother to load threads on the other files/download in the queue. Pretty much defeats the purpose of a Download manager.. My queue limit is set to 4 files/downloads at the time time.