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[Winston Churchill-Joell]

Hi guys,

This may be in danger of going OT, but I'm looking for a possible PHP 
solution to a frustration I run across when developing in Flash. 
Without going into a long and drawn out tirade about the shortcomings 
of Flash's testing environment, what I'm looking for is a more 
authentic simulation of making an HTTP request to the server. And of 
course, what better way to do this than on my local apache server? Of 
course, in order to properly test preloaders and whatnot I need to 
simulate a slow connection, like 56k dialup, for instance.

So, is there a way to use PHP to slow down the execution of a specific 
page on my local machine? For those of you familiar with Flash, I am 
aware of Flash's capability of doing this, but the testing environment 
does not support bandwidth simulation for externally loaded movies, 
which is why I'm looking for a different solution.

I'm running Apache 1.3.26 and PHP 4.2.3 on Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2.6)

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Winston