maybe OT, connection speed

pitbull3000 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

maybe this is a little bit off topic, but i asked me if it is possible to measure in some reliable way the connection speed during download between a server in the internet and a client at home. for example, like a status window how much of a file has already been downloaded and with which connection speed... maybe someone of all you noble men had the same question and solved it already...

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Re: maybe OT, connection speed by CubicSpline (Friar) on Sep 26, 2001 at 19:28 UTC
This kind of depends on what you're asking for? Do you mean, is there a way to implement this yourself in your own client/server application architecure? Then 'Certainly!' If you mean hooking up this sort of functionality to some other application, or adding the capability to a client without having any control over the server, then I'd say 'I don't know.' When I've done this in the past, I have my servers response to a client begin with a preamble that includes the length, in bytes, of the response as a whole. Then all the client has to do is keep a running total of the number of bytes that have come in on the socket. HTTP does the same thing with the Content-Length header. HTH	[reply]

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Re: maybe OT, connection speed
by CubicSpline (Friar) on Sep 26, 2001 at 19:28 UTC

When I've done this in the past, I have my servers response to a client begin with a preamble that includes the length, in bytes, of the response as a whole. Then all the client has to do is keep a running total of the number of bytes that have come in on the socket. HTTP does the same thing with the Content-Length header.

HTH

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