Hi. I know this topic has been discussed on this list in several occasions, but I would like to raise the issue once more, if you please : download throttling (rate limiting).
I still think that supporing rate limiting as a wget option is a worthwhile cause - in my case, a login server that I manage had its bandwidth saturated by a couple of users who use wget to download large video files, around the clock. by supplying them with the ability to control the download rate I can convert a technical problem to a social engineering problem (which in my case is much easier to solve). I took the approach visited by Stephen Cope in his rate limiting patch (http://kimihia.org.nz/projects/wgetrate) and simply reworked his patch for my own nefarious means (any terrible errors discovered are mine). I would like the developers' opinion on the patch, and whether or not it may be palatable to the general public. Attached is the patch against wget 1.7.1 TIA Oded
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