I've just made my local copy capable of this little feature, sometimes
requested by people on a tight pipe.

I copied the option's name and things from wget:

  --limit-rate <rate>

Where <rate> is number of bytes allowed to transfer per second. The rate can
also be written with one of the known suffixes: G, M and K. So that you can
write it 100K or 2M, as shortcuts for 102400 and 2097152...

Would there be any point in making a separate option for upload vs download?

(This required no libcurl change at all, but I added one anyway to make it
get better resolution for downloads.)

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