Increase the default HTTPClient download chunk size to 64 KiB

This improves download speeds at the cost of increased memory usage.

This change also effects HTTPRequest automatically.

See #32807 and #33862.
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Hugo Locurcio
2020-10-19 14:41:29 +02:00
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<member name="body_size_limit" type="int" setter="set_body_size_limit" getter="get_body_size_limit" default="-1">
Maximum allowed size for response bodies. If the response body is compressed, this will be used as the maximum allowed size for the decompressed body.
</member>
<member name="download_chunk_size" type="int" setter="set_download_chunk_size" getter="get_download_chunk_size" default="4096">
<member name="download_chunk_size" type="int" setter="set_download_chunk_size" getter="get_download_chunk_size" default="65536">
The size of the buffer used and maximum bytes to read per iteration. See [member HTTPClient.read_chunk_size].
Set this to a higher value (e.g. 65536 for 64 KiB) when downloading large files to achieve better speeds at the cost of memory.
Set this to a lower value (e.g. 4096 for 4 KiB) when downloading small files to decrease memory usage at the cost of download speeds.
</member>
<member name="download_file" type="String" setter="set_download_file" getter="get_download_file" default="&quot;&quot;">
The file to download into. Will output any received file into it.