On Wed, 31 Dec 2025, Dmitry Karpov via curl-library wrote:
As I discussed it with Stefan before, the rate limit mechanism should apply some small delay at the end of a throttled transfer to maintain the specified rate limit for the transfer.
I don't think libcurl should do that. Once the transfer is complete, I think it should return/say so.
And even though it will not save the bandwidth as all the data has been already transferred, it will provide proper network speed measurements for the decision making logic (i.e. bitrate selection mechanism in video streaming apps) and will help to decrease server load in back-to-back multi-transfer scenarios.
If your app thinks it needs to add that extra wait, it is really easy for you to add a sleep there though.
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