Leo took a breath. Instead of getting angry, he decided to become a digital detective. Leo remembered that "Requesting info" means FDM is talking to the server where the file lives. It's asking: How big is this file? Does it support resuming? Can I have a piece?
He found and checked the box. Then he typed: free download manager stuck on requesting info
"Requesting info from what ?" Leo muttered, watching the green bar pulse but never advance. He clicked "Pause," then "Resume." Nothing. He restarted FDM. Nothing. Leo took a breath
If the server doesn't answer, FDM waits forever. It's asking: How big is this file
By default, FDM uses 8 or 16 "chunks" (simultaneous connections). Some cheap or old servers see this as a mini-attack and refuse to answer the info request.
But that was a good test. He knew the server was picky. Leo's next move was clever. Some servers only talk nicely to web browsers, not to download managers. They see "FDM" and think robot .
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 This told the server, "I'm just a regular Chrome browser, nothing to see here!"