Tails

#2 Updated by goupille 2016-08-26 14:21:56

the reports were from the 23, between midniht and 4

#3 Updated by goupille 2016-08-26 14:26:05

more accuracy about the report : they were received the 23 around midnight, 04:00, and 15:00

#5 Updated by aerete 2016-09-18 18:50:14

DOWNLOAD MANAGERS TO GET MULTITHREAD AND FAST TAILS ISO FROM dl.amnesia.boum.org ?

This is not only problem with Tails-Upgrader, so please recommend officially download managers to get Tails .iso from your website on pc with linux distributions.

So e.g. downloading problems with URL http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.5/tails-i386-2.5.iso

wget is downloading Tails only multithread, and when connection is breaking, it lose iso downloaded file and user must start to download at the begining of. For size 1,1gb it really causes downloading problems.

Multiget www.multiget.sourceforge.net has multithread downloading and correctly extract this URL but download not start.

Do you block multiget or other download managers to get iso file from your website?

Please reccomend multithread and lightweight (with minimum dependecies in Linux) download manager.

Thank you

#6 Updated by aerete 2016-09-18 18:55:07

wget has only one thread of downloading (I am correcting last post)

#7 Updated by Sandokhan 2016-09-19 16:53:47

To build completely script based on wget command line tool which in fact will transform your usual wget into full multithreads, reasuming, masking download manager, you need not only concentrate on:

1. MULTITHREADS downloading like ON website http://blog.netflowdevelopments.com/2011/01/24/multi-threaded-downloading-with-wget or:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3430810/wget-download-with-multiple-simultaneous-connections
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22114610/downloading-a-file-with-wget-using-multiple-connections

where http://example.org/ is a sample path to downloaded file from server
—————————————-
THREADS=10
WGETFLAGS=’-r -np -N’
URL=”http://example.org/”
for i in {1..$THREADS}; do
wget $WGETFLAGS “$URL”
done
—————————————-
or
—————————————-
THREADS=10
WGETFLAGS=’-r -np -N’
URL=”http://example.org/”
for i in `seq 1 $((THREADS-1))`
do
Command=”$Command””wget $WGETFLAGS $URL”‘ & ‘
done
Command=”$Command””wget $WGETFLAGS $URL”
eval $Command
——————————————

but you need to complete wget script with:

2. LOCATION of downloading file e.g. on hdd like on website: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1078524/how-to-specify-the-location-with-wget

-O is the option to specify the path of the file you want to download to.

wget <file.ext> -O /path/to/folder/file.ext

-P is prefix where it will download the file in the directory

wget <file.ext> -P /path/to/folder

This options will protect e.g. live cd users when wget by default download to RAM , so user can change into hdd or usb and download larger files.

3. REASUMING OPTION like on: http://askubuntu.com/questions/610761/how-do-i-restart-a-wget-download e.g.:
wget -c http://to-downloading-file-from-internet
but this will only work if the server supports Range headers.

4. Masking wget before blocking direct download, which some servers do, like described on website: http://askubuntu.com/questions/24935/wget-downloads-corrupt-jpeg-file

using wget with the -U flag, adding the user agent string of your browser, e.g.:

wget -U “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/11.0.654.0 Chrome/11.0.654.0 Safari/534.17” http://to-downloading-file-from-internet

But finally even if you will tired and complete your script, if owner of the server doesn’t want free open linux (no tracking) software, the only way to download from this server will be forced by this owner of the server’s software.

#8 Updated by Sandokhan 2016-09-19 17:22:55

Tails is one of the last free non tracking software based on linux, so it’s needed easier and quicker ways to download their iso, so my question to you Tails managers is:

Could you confirm that it’s possible to download iso from your website with 10 times quicker by wget with option:
————————————————-
THREADS=10
WGETFLAGS=’-r -np -N’
URL=”http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.5/tails-i386-2.5.iso”
for i in {1..$THREADS}; do
wget $WGETFLAGS “$URL”
————————————————-
and could you please don’t block direct downloads and please support wget -c options?

And answer to aerete, your multiget download manager is ok, but till time when managers will let on direct downloads you need to mask your multiget as e.g. firefox: symilar like wget:

wget -U “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/11.0.654.0 Chrome/11.0.654.0 Safari/534.17” http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.5/tails-i386-2.5.iso

Thanks and good luck

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2016-09-20 02:54:40

> Tails is one of the last free non tracking software based on linux, so it’s needed easier and quicker ways to download their iso, so my question to you Tails managers is:

First of all, this is off-topic on this ticket, so please raise your concerns and ideas to a new, dedicated one. Thanks in advance!
But perhaps you don’t need to do that: downloading over multiple mirrors at the same time might make things faster for the person who does that, but it likely will makes things slower for everybody else, so IMO we should not advertise such methods.

#10 Updated by sajolida 2016-09-21 09:53:34

And if HTTP downloads are not fast enough for you, then I recommend instead using the recommended way of doing “multithreaded downloads” which is BitTorrent, and is always proposed as an option when downloading Tails.

#15 Updated by mercedes508 2017-03-28 09:22:03

I just tried and it’s fixed! Thanks.

#16 Updated by intrigeri 2017-03-28 10:00:29

> I just tried and it’s fixed! Thanks.

Thank you!