On 29 November 2011 13:25, Rob Ward <rob_at_rob-ward.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On Nov 23, 2011 3:21 PM, "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Rob Ward wrote:
> >
> >> I would have thought that changing the behavior from what it has being
> for several years could cause a number of issues for applications in the
> field that have a dependency on it's current behavior, however i bow to
> your judgment with regards to this as you obviously have a greater
> understanding of how curl is used.
> >
> >
> > I can't say this with 100% certainty, but I've read about people having
> problems in the past as well with changing the speed rating options during
> transfers. Possibly a modified behavior would rather be welcomed by users...
> >
> > I don't think that many users actually change speed rate during
> transfers.
> >
> >
> >> I would have also thought that curl will be used by many for streaming
> of media and that having a minimum could service a large number of
> application in the future but that is pure speculation.
> >
> >
> > You might be right. I can in no way claim to actually know what people
> use libcurl for or how many that stream media with it.
> >
> > I would love to get some other people's opinions and views on the
> problem and the ideas we've bounced back and forth on how to make this
> easier/better for applications. Any other media streamer around?
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > / daniel.haxx.se
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> As it seems that there are no other active users that use libcurl for
> streaming as an alternative question has anyone else got an opinion about
> changing the behavior of max recv speed from that documented?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>

As it seems no one has an opinion either way I think I'm going to try and
create a patch that achieves this by adding a minimum so as to retain
backwards compatibility for applications in the field.

Cheers,

Rob

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