NAME
App::ManiacDownloader - a maniac download accelerator.
VERSION
version 0.0.13
SYNOPSIS
# To download with 10 segments
$ mdown -k=10 http://path.to.my.url.tld/path-to-file.txtDESCRIPTION
This is Maniac Downloader, a maniac download accelerator. It is currently very incomplete (see the TODO.txt file), but is still somewhat usable. Maniac Downloader is being written out of necessity out of proving to improve the download speed of files here (which I suspect is caused by a misconfiguration of my ISP's networking), and as a result, may prove of use elsewhere.
The Secret Sauce
The main improvement of Maniac Downloader over other downloader managers is that if a segment of the downloaded file finishes, then it splits the largest remaining segment, and starts another new download, so the slowest downloads won't delay the completion time by much.
Answers to Questions about Maniac Downloader
Does Maniac Downloader always guarantee the best possible speed of download?
The short answer is: “No”. The longer answer is that in today’s Internet and networking world, there are simply too many factors at play to make sure that downloading using a certain way will always be the fastest. Maniac Downloader uses a certain scheme which may make things faster on certain conditions (namely that individual connections is being capped), but it may make the performance somewhat worse as well.
One thing we hope to guarantee is that it won’t make the download time much longer. If it does, please let us know.
METHODS
$self->run({argv => [@ARGV]})
Run the application with @ARGV .
SEE ALSO
Asynchronous Programming FTW! 2 (with AnyEvent)
http://www.slideshare.net/xSawyer/async-programmingftwanyevent
a talk by Sawyer X that introduced me to AnyEvent of which I made use for Maniac Downloader.
“Man Down”
“Man Down” is a song by Rihanna, which happens to have the same initialism as Maniac Downloader, and which I happen to like, so feel free to check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhy-RXkNo0
SUPPORT
Websites
The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.
MetaCPAN
A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.
RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker
The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-ManiacDownloader
CPANTS
The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.
CPAN Testers
The CPAN Testers is a network of smoke testers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.
CPAN Testers Matrix
The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.
CPAN Testers Dependencies
The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.
Bugs / Feature Requests
Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to bug-app-maniacdownloader at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=App-ManiacDownloader. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.
Source Code
The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)
https://github.com/shlomif/maniac-downloader
git clone git://github.com/shlomif/maniac-downloader.gitAUTHOR
Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/shlomif/maniac-downloader/issues
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by Shlomi Fish.
This is free software, licensed under:
The MIT (X11) License