Bug#685603: clive: support option to rate limit download

[Michael Prokop]

* Ansgar Burchardt [Mon Aug 27, 2012 at 10:29:39AM +0200]:
> Michael Prokop <mika at debian.org> writes:
> > Would be nice if clive could support curl's --limit-rate option to
> > limit the download speed, especially when using clive with
> > "--format=best" this might quite saturate a slower internet
> > connection which could be prevented then.

> You can change the options clive passes to curl with the --get-with
> options, see /usr/share/clive/cliverc for the ones currently in use.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that, nice - thanks!

> cclive also has a --throttle option.  I don't think it will be added to
> clive as the website[1] says "clive is currently maintained only. Please
> see cclive, the rewrite of clive, which is a more active project."

I see, thanks for clarification.
From my PoV feel free to close the bug report.

regards,
-mika-
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