Re: Rate limit regressions in libcurl 8.18.0 vs 8.17.0

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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