xhr-shaper

xhr-shaper

Shapes your XHR requests to a max emulated bandwidth and latency, randomizes frequency of progress events

Install:

npm install xhr-shaper

How to use:

require('xhr-shaper'); // NOTE: you can also include `index.js` as static script into your page

NOTE: Loading this module will overload the XHR constructor in the window to produce a mirror object which will have the exact same behavior, but it's not an instance of the native XMLHttpRequest (in case that matters for some reason to you). The mirror XHR has an additional property called shaper ...

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function(e) {
  console.log('readyState: ' + xhr.readyState);
};
xhr.onprogress = function(e) {
  console.log('Progress: ' + e.loaded + ' of ' + e.total);
};
xhr.withCredentials = false;
xhr.open('GET', "http://www.streambox.fr/playlists/test_001/stream_110k_48k_416x234_000.ts", true);
xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';

Create a bare XHR just as always ...

// Set your minimum desired latency !
xhr.shaper.minLatency = 1000;

// Set your maximum desired bandwidth
xhr.shaper.maxBandwidth = 512;

Or make these things global so they will apply on ALL requests!!!

// all requests will be limited to 64kbps and take at least 5000 ms
XMLHttpRequest.Shaper.maxBandwidth = 64;
XMLHttpRequest.Shaper.minLatency = 5000;

... wait for things to happen.

xhr.send();

Test/dev:

Just open index.html (eventually via a local server)

TODOs:

• randomizing feature
• proper automated tests