How can I limit bandwidth in Java?

Question

I wrote a Java scheduler, every hour using:

new SAXBuilder().build(new URL(xxx));

or

HttpConnection.connect(new URL(xxx));         


        

Answer 1

Take a look at this thread: http://httpcomponents.10934.n7.nabble.com/throttlling-download-traffic-td18329.html

Also, if you use apache httpclient you can configure it to use gzip compression and save a bit of bandwidth. Particularly with xml, you should expect a lot less bytes transferred this way.