Restricting Download speed on attachements.

[Milhouse]

At this point in time, if one is to download an attachement from our forums he will be able to use up all of the line as long as his internet connections allows him to.

What i was wondering, is it possibly to put a restriction on mysql attachemnts so that users can only download at say a maximum speed of 30k/s instead of the 200k/s they are getting ?

Thanx you

[Andreas]

File attachment.php, at the very end

Replace

PHP Code:

echo $attachmentinfo["$imagetype"]; 


With

PHP Code:

// UploadBandwithLimitHack
// Original line: echo $attachmentinfo["$imagetype"];
$bandwidth = 30; // Desired max. bandwidth in KB/s.
$i = 0;
while ($i < strlen($attachmentinfo["$imagetype"])) {
  echo substr($attachmentinfo["$imagetype"], $i, 1024);
  $i += 1024;
  flush();
  usleep(1000000/$bandwidth);
}
// UploadBandwidthLimitHack 


This might help, but isn't a good solution IMHO.

[Milhouse]

hmm nope I was still able to download at higher then 30k/s with that. It just took forever for the download to start that's all. Anyother solutiosn anyone ?

[Milhouse]

oh and BTW at the end of the file i have echo $attachmentinfo[filedata]; not what you posted above

[Andreas]

Hmm ... what version do you use?
This is for RC2 and worked for me.

[Milhouse]

Running vb 2.3.2 Did I post in the wrong section ?

[Milhouse]

Also i do have a vb3 RC2 forum runnign where i just tried that and it was a no go as well.

[Andreas]

Strange, does work for me. Well then - sorry for the mess.

[NTLDR]

Quickly looking at the code I'd assume it works for images only.

[Milhouse]

Originally Posted by NTLDR

Quickly looking at the code I'd assume it works for images only.

That's what i assumed as well.

Which is not good for me. i need ti to essentially effect all attachements.

Any ideas from the gurus here?