What is 'Dtop'?

I meaned drop.

I don't understand why you want to limit the rates just because
libcurl uses a WAN link

I am using libcurl for testing Proxy server, so i need to simulate client
WAN behavior.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva_at_bgnett.no>
To: "libcurl development" <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: Adding client WAN support to libcurl

> "Pavel Orehov" wrote:
>
>> I want to add to libcurl client WAN support functionality to be able to
>> perform the following features:
>> - Delay between transactions
>> - Send/Receive data in chunks on TCP layer
>> - Dtop transaction after some defined time period
>> - All these features should work via HTTP, HTTPS, FTPoHTTP protocols
>>
>> Probably libcurl dev will not add this features to libcurl because this
>> is not normal behavior of client.
>
> I don't understand why you want to limit the rates just because
> libcurl uses a WAN link. The link uses handshake (CRT/RTS) packets
> to prevent heavy traffic to saturate the WAN link. What is 'Dtop'?
>
>> So i wanted to know in which functions and files i should add delays and
>> write/read in my defined blocks in all before specified protocols. If
>> first look i see that all read/write to socket actions are in one
>> function, i just want to be sure that i am not missing something.
>
> You could try setting the SO_RCVBUF+SO_SNDBUF options
> on the socket(s). For example in SetupConnection() when ConnectedPlease()
> == CURLE_OK.
>
> See also Wget's limit_bandwidth() function.
>
> --gv
Received on 2005-02-11