bandwidth-throttling

Is there a way I can simulate various connection speeds from within Chrome? I need to be able to check http://localhost with varying speeds. I know there are standalone applications that can do this, but I'd rather do this inside Chrome. I'd recommend Charles Proxy - you can choose to slowdown individual sites, also has a whole bunch of HTTP inspection tools. Edit: As of June 2014, Chrome now has the ability to do this natively in DevTools - you'll need Chrome 38 though. The option is accessible from the Network tab via a drop down at the end of the toolbar. If you are running Linux, the

is it possible to easily cap the kbps when using urllib2 ? If it is, any code examples or resources you could direct me to would be greatly appreciated. There is the urlretrieve(url, filename=None, reporthook=None, data=None) function in the urllib module. If you implement the reporthook -function/object as either a token bucket , or a leaky bucket, you have your global rate-limit. EDIT: Upon closer examination I see that it isn't as easy to do global rate-limit with reporthook as I thought. reporthook is only given the downloaded amount and the total size, which on their own isn't enough to