Comment by stratos123

I use aria2 sometimes, but one thing that surprised me is that it doesn't fully support retries. As in, even if you pass something like "--always-resume=true --continue=true", if you try to use aria2c on a bad connection, you will sometimes get errors which make aria2c just exit. Thankfully it does have good resume support, so I was able to wrap aria2c in a bash script that calls it repeatedly until the download succeeds, but it's strange to me that this was necessary.

Some relevant github issues: https://github.com/aria2/aria2/issues/1399 https://github.com/aria2/aria2/pull/2004