CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpcurl
Grant
Grant

Reputation: 329

Is it possible to slow down a PHP cURL request

This is probably the opposite of what is usually asked, but is there anyway to actually make a cURL request slower and make the loading process last longer? I've searched and couldn't find any solutions. Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2536

Answers (2)

BrenoZan
BrenoZan

Reputation: 304

try CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE, to slow down the transfer

curl_setopt($cSlow,CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE,10)

It will work only with PHP 5.4

ps.Sorry the poor enlgish

Upvotes: 6

madebydavid
madebydavid

Reputation: 6517

You can add a usleep in the curl progress function, if you really need to hack a slow transfer:

<?php

/* fast curl */
$cFast = curl_init('http://stackoverflow.com/users/2779152/madebydavid');
curl_setopt($cFast, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$time = microtime(true);
$result = curl_exec($cFast);
echo("fast: ".(microtime(true) - $time)."\n");


/* slow curl */
$cSlow = curl_init('http://stackoverflow.com/users/2779152/madebydavid');
curl_setopt($cSlow, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($cSlow, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, false);
curl_setopt($cSlow, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, function() {
    usleep(100000);
    return 0;
});

$time = microtime(true);
$result = curl_exec($cSlow);
echo("slow: ".(microtime(true) - $time)."\n");

The first request is fast, the second slow - if you save it as curlFastSlow.php then run it, the second request should have a noticeable difference:

$ php -q curlFastSlow.php
fast: 0.58203315734863
slow: 1.5010859966278

Upvotes: 5

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