How to limit downloading speed?

tsarnowski

Im tryin to make a script that will limit download speed,
for instance.... free user 2 k/b's per second.

Advance user 10 k/b's per second.

Is this possible with-in PHP?

Thanks, for help...... Todd

JDcrack

You could try using the following functions:
fopen()
fread()
sleep()
flush()

<?php

$file = "test.mp3"; // file to be send to the client
$speed = 8.5; // 8,5 kb/s download rate limit

if(file_exists($file) && is_file($file)) {

header("Cache-control: private");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
header("Content-Disposition: filename=$file" . "%20"); 

flush();

$fd = fopen($file, "r");
while(!feof($fd)) {
echo fread($fd, round($speed*1024));
flush();
sleep(1);
}
fclose ($fd);

}

?>

tsarnowski

I tried that one (seen it in php.net manual).
it dosnt download the full file.

it cuts 247kb into the file......

JDcrack

Have you tried mod_bandwidth for Apache?

tsarnowski

No I havn't, I will check it out.... Thanks. Todd