Download accelerator friendly - resume broken downloads

[Former Member]

Hi,

I just thought to mention this here as well as a suggestion of course.

Is there perhaps any possibilty of having a download accelerator friendly download. 

Maybe something which supports resuming downloads once they have been broken.

I come from a part of the world where the network speed is not exactly "quick". :)

Thoughts please.

Cheers,

Mz

[Former Member]

Hi,

I tried SAP download manager but the tool is not user friendly to say the least.

I had to download JVM 1.4.2 or higher, for which the link given by SAP lead me to a site that said that JVM 1.4.2 was outdated and had to get a newer version. Around 2 hours and countless clicks later, I installed SAP download manager on my machine to discover that I could not download the SAP trial versions given in the links below.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/downloads?rid=/library/uuid/70b58216-00e7-2c10-f6a9-c59f3a351b63

So, i proceeded to manually download the first of the two files in the link above using firefox (Yawn!!)

I set my laptop to download last night and drifted off to sleep. I woke up the next morning to see that my download was hung. It had finished downloading 1.6 GB but was not complete. Nothing seemed to be happening on my screen and painfully......... I had to cancel the download.

Surely there must be an easier way............

Mz

[Former Member]

>Surely there must be an easier way

I sure would like to know a better way.

Each time I have to download a new SAP product installation sources, it takes me several days wether using Download Manager or not.

The worse part is to guess what to download even if I have 12 years of SAP download experience. I can imagine the nightmare for a SAP newbee...

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

I tried SAP download manager but the tool is not user friendly to say the least.

Well, it's not a beauty, but for IT people I'd say usage is rather straightforward. As far as your Java experience is concerned I'm rather surprised, because I don't know many people who don't have at least a JRE (or even JDK) installation on their machine...

I could not download the SAP trial versions given in the links below.

Yep, sorry, but since you hadn't provided any link I was making the wrong assumption (my bad) that you actually wanted to download from [SAP's Software Distribution Center|https://service.sap.com/swdc]. Now I know would have and should have doesn't make any difference now, but if you would have posted the actual link I wouldn't have suggested the SAP download manager. So again, my apologies for wasting your time, all I can say is please try to be as specific as you can with your questions.

So back to your original posting:

Maybe something which supports resuming downloads once they have been broken.

Yeah, that would be nice. I'm a bit puzzled, because basically the web server claims to support partial downloads. I.e. http header contains Accept-Ranges: bytes. However, when I then try to continue a partial download with a request header containing something like Range: bytes=21032154-, then I get a response with http status code and message 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable. That's pretty odd and I don't quite understand this. The 416 response should come if the given range is bad, but it's clearly not (and the server claims to support ranges).

Maybe somebody else can shed some light onto this...

Cheers, harald

[Former Member]

@ Olivier, Hmmm......... hope that I won't lose my way and that SAP makes things better in the future.

@Harald, Thanks for your suggestion anyway. At least now, I know what SAP download Manager is. Also, let's hope for some official comment here

[Former Member]

Use the [SAP Download Manager|https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/002006825000000233132001].

Cheers, harald