Re: calculating http download speed

From: Beau E. Cox (beau_at_beaucox.com)
Date: 06/25/04


To: beginners@perl.org
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:09:38 -1000

On Thursday 24 June 2004 02:07 pm, Radhika Sambamurti wrote:
> Hi folks,
> My task is to calculate the download speed taken by a program, that can
> download images either by ftp, http or smbclient. One way I am thinking of
> doing this is by calculating the total download size by time taken. getting
> the size is easier than calculating the time taken for the download.
>
> Any pointers would help.
>
> thanks,
> Radhika

Hi -

Look at the various timer methods in
Time::HiRes on CPAN. I am sure one of those
will work for you.

Aloha => Beau;



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