For those who don't already know this you can often bypass a lot of download managers out there if the 'Download Manager' doesn't really feel like a good 'Download Manager' (there are some genuinely terrible ones out there. Some of the worse I've come across don't even allow for resumption of downloads! Truly bizarre given this day and age?). I recently had this situation with:
They basically want you to use their download manager at:
- to figure this out first startup Wireshark and run it on the relevant network interface controller/device
- then run the download manager/program like so
wine ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_downloader.exe &
- then freeze the the output from Wireshark and do a search request for the names of the files in question. This led to an IP address. Direct connection to IP address seemed to lead to a stall/non-response?
ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup.exe
ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup-1.bin
wget 74.47.33.212/deploy/ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup.exe
--2018-02-02 05:50:52-- http://74.47.33.212/deploy/ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup.exe
Connecting to 74.47.33.212:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ^C
- examination of the trace led to the following two URIs
- if you're wondering how to do this from Linux CLI here are relevant commands/code...
tcpdump -Ar ejay_hiphop5_trace.pcap | less
00:12:02.811894 IP system.60716 > static.212.33.47.78.clients.your-server.de.http: Flags [P.], seq 1:117, ack 1, win 229, options [nop,nop,TS val 9596671 ecr 1453398521], length 116: HTTP: GET /deploy/ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup-1.bin HTTP/1.0
E....@@.@.e....dN/!..,.P.y.R........1......
..w.R.V
GET /deploy/ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup-1.bin HTTP/1.0
Host: downloader3.ejay.com
User-Agent: Download Manager
- as you can see below, everything seems fine with wget
Resolving downloader3.ejay.com (downloader3.ejay.com)... 78.47.33.212
Connecting to downloader3.ejay.com (downloader3.ejay.com)|78.47.33.212|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 757552 (740K) [application/x-msdos-program]
Saving to: ‘ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup.exe’
ejay_hiphop5_reload 100%[===================>] 739.80K 141KB/s in 6.4s
Resolving downloader3.ejay.com (downloader3.ejay.com)... 78.47.33.212
Connecting to downloader3.ejay.com (downloader3.ejay.com)|78.47.33.212|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1729064223 (1.6G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup-1.bin’
ejay_hiphop 0%[ ] 12.06K 17.3KB/s
- frustrating thing is that attempting to use aria2c to speed things up didn't really seem to make much of a difference with regards to speed...
aria2c --max-connection-per-server=4 --min-split-size=1M http://downloader3.ejay.com/deploy/ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup-1.bin
Download Results:
gid |stat|avg speed |path/URI
======+====+===========+=======================================================
a08282|INPR| 215KiB/s|/media/sda1/eJay HipHop 5 Reloaded/ejay_hiphop5_reloaded_setup-1.bin
- funny thing is that in the past I've worked with many people who said that you can't really gain much from a packet trace? It depends on what you're looking at?
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