in reply to libcurl and WWW::Curl speed benchmark

I need to benchmark my internet conncetion ( download file, calculate size and time and recive a speed.

FWIW: wget does this for you every time you use it:


wget -c http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/perl-5.12.3.t
+ar.gz
Connecting to ftp.esat.net|193.120.14.241|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 14933787 (14M), 12347274 (12M) remaining [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `perl-5.12.3.tar.gz'

40% [++++++++++=============>                                   ] 6,11
+6,789    
200K/s  eta 44s     ^

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