On Mon, 27 May 2002, Stuart Halliday wrote:

> Is there someway to have a switch added to Curl so that instead of it
> trying to claim all the available bandwidth a switch limits it to X
> KBytes/sec?
>
> As a Sysadmin I often have to download large files but I'd like to leave
> some bandwidth for others on my Works 128K ISDN network.
>
> Would others find this feature useful?

It is in the TODO file, and I would indeed like to see the feature added.

It should probably be implmented entirely in client-side code (I mean outside
the library) and it could make the callback functions sleep a certain period
before returning back to the library.

You up to writing a patch for this?

-- 
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