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[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Jordan,

In the (a) case, does it spit out an error telling people that there’s a 
problem, or does it just go on as though everything is fine?

Cheers,
Aaron

On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Jordan McCarthy 
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> I'm not sure if this should be handled separately, but the M-Lab team
> has a series of changes that we would like to add to the flash client
> to handle the fact that the Adobe flash runtime for Mac OS X and Linux
> is severely performance-limited.
> 
> Here's the description of what we did:
> 
> Our  patch (attached) adds a customizable feature for dealing with
> performance-limited flash runtimes.  In a nutshell, the patch allows
> anyone who hosts an NDT test to specify (via an HTML parameter)
> whether performance-limited flash runtimes should (a) be treated the
> same as non-limited ones, (b) only be allowed to run against a
> "fallback" server, or (c) not allowed to run the NDT test via flash at
> all.  Measurement Lab will generally use option (c), because we are
> primarily interested in identifying and measuring bottlenecks in the
> performance of networks, rather than clients.  However, we completely
> understand the argument that some researchers might actually want the
> speed limitations introduced by particular runtimes to be captured in
> experimental data, and our patch makes it very easy to switch between
> these two approaches, depending on experimenters' needs.
> 
> The patch has been tested extensively on all major web browsers on
> Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and appears to work well in all
> environments except for Safari (where the flash client doesn't work at
> all).
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jordan
> 
> Jordan McCarthy
> Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation
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> On 11/07/2014 11:00 AM, 
> 
>  wrote:
>> 
>> Comment #3 on issue 162 by 
>> :
>>  New NDT release 
>> https://code.google.com/p/ndt/issues/detail?id=162
>> 
>> All flash client related improvements have been fixed and changes
>> are available on FlashClientFixes branch. Please feel free to
>> review them and if all will look ok then I will merge them into
>> trunk in nearest time.
>> 
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