Re: Idea to php: client-speed, on server

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2014, at 05:21, Uve Vesterbrandt <uve@vesterbrandt.dk> wrote: > > *_We would be grateful_* > > Can anybody follow our idea? We, as a group mighty like a response to > this. > > If anyone has some general ideas for possible solution, it would be > funand helpfull, but our current project, however, only reveal whether the > idea is workable. > > If you know other people who would be more obvious to submit it to, we > would be grateful to you forwarded or disclosed to who it could be. > > This isn't really feasible, and even if it was, PHP would have nothing to > do with it. If the web server was able to determine the client speed and > set a server variable then PHP without any modifications would provide it > via $_SERVER['CLIENT_SPEED']. But there is no way the web server can > determine this on its own. The only way for this to be feasible would be if > the mobile browsers were to send the current connection speed as part of > their USER_AGENT header or in some different header. So you should be > asking Apple and Google, not us. > Agreed with Rasmus. This doesn't belong *in* PHP. But, as long as you can detect the speed, it would be easy to set an environment variable for or develop a framework for apps to take it into account. Likewise, the following sounds remarkably familiar to what you're talking about; hopefully it helps: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/10/measuring_conne.html -- Jonah H. Harris Blog: http://www.oracle-internals.com/