On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, my name wrote:

> Ideally I'd like to make at least 5mbps worth of http requests. Is this
> possible, and is libcurl right for the job?

libcurl is about as high performant as your network and computer allows it. It
is very rare to see libcurl limit your bandwidth for plain HTTP on modern
hardware.

I would rather suggest that other factors in your setup are more likely to
limit the bandwidth.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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