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[John W. Markert]

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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