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Re: Help! about LIBCURL ,I've got trouble in download rate setting

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:06:28 -0700

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:02:20AM +0800, frank chan wrote:
> Please help me !
> I've set all the params of easy curl downloading, such as speed limit , url ,
> and it seems all right . It is all ok to set speed limit at the begining before
> curl_easy_perform . But I need to change the speed limit during the download
> process , so I use curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE,speed)
> to set speed (from 100k to about 30k) , then the speed decrease to 0k for some
> seconds and the connection breaks down . The problem will not appear when I set
> speed limit to a bigger one , like from 50k to 100k .
>   I want to know if it is sort of a bug of libcurl , please help me !

Options are generally not allowed to be set after a transfer begins.
That makes sense for most options (after all, what is libcurl supposed to do
if a GET is converted to a POST in mid-transfer), but I can see how it would
be handy to be able to change one like this.

>>> Dan
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