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Re: Adding A Speed limiting feature

From: SM <nntp_at_iname.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:22:07 +0400

Hi,
At 13:42 29-10-2001 +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>Yes, but we must always ask ourselves if there's a good idea to add specific
>features to the library that is already possible for an application to add
>using the standard interfaces. In this case, I think we should go for this
>latter solution. If the current interface is not good enough for it, we
>should change that situation.

I agree with you. After sending out the reply, I realised that it is
possible to implement a rate-limiting feature using the existing libcurl
interface.

>We could also provide easy accessible example source code that provides the
>rate-limitation feature, so that people can implement that more easily.

Good idea.

Regards,
-sm
Received on 2001-10-30