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[Winston Churchill-Joell]

Thanks, John -- this looks like it might do it.

Best,
Winston


On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 11:45  PM, John W. Markert wrote:

> Winston...
>
> I don't have any experience with the following, but I remembered 
> reading
> about it. Perhaps you can confibure your server to simulate a slow
> connection.
>
> http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-02/lamp_01.html
>
> John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Winston Churchill-Joell" <winston at xylophage.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 11:33 PM
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] Way to simulate slow connection on localhost?
>
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> This may be in danger of going OT, but I'm looking for a possible PHP
>> solution to a frustration I run across when developing in Flash.
>> Without going into a long and drawn out tirade about the shortcomings
>> of Flash's testing environment, what I'm looking for is a more
>> authentic simulation of making an HTTP request to the server. And of
>> course, what better way to do this than on my local apache server? Of
>> course, in order to properly test preloaders and whatnot I need to
>> simulate a slow connection, like 56k dialup, for instance.
>>
>> So, is there a way to use PHP to slow down the execution of a specific
>> page on my local machine? For those of you familiar with Flash, I am
>> aware of Flash's capability of doing this, but the testing environment
>> does not support bandwidth simulation for externally loaded movies,
>> which is why I'm looking for a different solution.
>>
>> I'm running Apache 1.3.26 and PHP 4.2.3 on Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2.6)
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>> Winston
>>
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