TODO: Ratelimit or wait between serial requests
Closes #5406
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18.10 improve how curl works in a windows console window
18.11 Windows: set attribute 'archive' for completed downloads
18.12 keep running, read instructions from pipe/socket
+ 18.13 Ratelimit or wait between serial requests
18.15 --retry should resume
18.16 send only part of --data
18.17 consider file name from the redirected URL with -O ?
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invoke can talk to the still running instance and ask for transfers to get
done, and thus maintain its connection pool, DNS cache and more.
+18.13 Ratelimit or wait between serial requests
+
+ Consider a command line option that can make curl do multiple serial requests
+ slow, potentially with a (random) wait between transfers. There's also a
+ propsed set of standard HTTP headers to let servers let the client adapt to
+ its rate limits:
+ https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-polli-ratelimit-headers-02.html
+
+ See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5406
+
18.15 --retry should resume
When --retry is used and curl actually retries transfer, it should use the
