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Re: [ curl-Bugs-1603712 ] curl 7.16-0 now use "limit rate" badly

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:56:40 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Sebastien WILLEMIJNS wrote:

> what users can test this commandline under unix and give us answer ?
> curl7160 --limit-rate 1K http://test-debit.free.fr/image.iso -o deleteme -r
> 0-100000 -v --trace 7160.log

I tried on Linux 2.6 and it downloaded the range fine. It didn't however limit
the rate properly, and once I reread the source code I can see how the current
rate limiting logic is completely flawed and just will not work.

It doesn't explain why any connection would be prematurely aborted though.

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Received on 2006-11-27