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Probelms when downloading large files

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vonigol

Probelms when downloading large files

Postby vonigol » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:52 am

Hello!

FDM is an excelent tool. However, I cannot download large (2~3 GB) files, for example Fedore Core ISO-image files. FDM reports an error. At the same time I can easily start downloading the same large files through Internet Explorer (that is without FDM). Here is the test link:

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/f ... 86-DVD.iso

Is it FDM's bug or just a problem with my Internet access?

How to avoid those DFM errors and finally manage to download Fedora Core files with the help of FDM?

Thanks.

Best,
Alex
vonigol

More test links

Postby vonigol » Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:04 am

Here is another interesting test case:

http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/fedora/linu ... /i386/iso/

This URL provides links to 2 files. The fisrt one, with the size ~3 GB, cannot be downloaded through FDM. FDM generates an error. The FDM can download the second one, with a size 100MB, without any problems.

IE is able to download both files (without FDM).

Alex
Guest

Re: Probelms when downloading large files

Postby Guest » Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:54 am

vonigol wrote:Hello!

FDM is an excelent tool. However, I cannot download large (2~3 GB) files, for example Fedore Core ISO-image files. FDM reports an error. At the same time I can easily start downloading the same large files through Internet Explorer (that is without FDM). Here is the test link:

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/f ... 86-DVD.iso

Is it FDM's bug or just a problem with my Internet access?

How to avoid those DFM errors and finally manage to download Fedora Core files with the help of FDM?

Thanks.

Best,
Alex


Works for me. Using fdm 2.5 737.
kenalan22902
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Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:02 pm

Postby kenalan22902 » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:03 pm

It seems to be working for me with build 726. I have a cable connection downloading currently at a little less than 500KB/s.
DavidS

Postby DavidS » Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:56 pm

Hi all,

I'm having the same problem - can't download files larger than 2GB in size. I tried build 2.5.745 and new 2.5.747 - both don't work :cry:

Can anyone help please??

Thank you,
David
antini
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Joined: Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:28 am

Postby antini » Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:40 pm

DavidS wrote:I'm having the same problem - can't download files larger than 2GB in size. I tried build 2.5.745 and new 2.5.747 - both don't work :cry:


is your local filesystem fat32?

can you provide a URL that doesn't work?

see also http://blogs.sun.com/gaz/entry/breaking ... le_barrier
Guest

Postby Guest » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:44 pm

It seems to be something to do with HTTPS. Files larger than a couple of gigs fail with the error message "Unknown Network Error" if you download them over secure HTTPS, but work if you use firefox with the same link. FDM works just fine with the same file over unsecure HTTP.
Alex
FDM Team
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Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:17 pm

Postby Alex » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:27 pm

Anonymous wrote:It seems to be something to do with HTTPS. Files larger than a couple of gigs fail with the error message "Unknown Network Error" if you download them over secure HTTPS, but work if you use firefox with the same link. FDM works just fine with the same file over unsecure HTTP.


Can you provide some example?
Alex,
FDM development team

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