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Re: Newbie bytes/sec question

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:58:50 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 bragiba_at_simi.is wrote:

> I am using pycurl to benchmark by downloading a website. I save the
> webiste on my local machine just for reference and to make sure that it
> looks ok. My question is does the reported data speed SPEED_DOWNLOAD get
> effected by the write taking place in the WRITEFUNCTION callback command?

SPEED_DOWNLOAD is the amount of bytes downloaded / total time its taken.

> Or is the bytes/sec reported just the pure download socket speed?

Nope. Everything will be taken into account. If you have a slow callback,
that might delay the download, yes.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-11-27