HTTP-STRESS(1C)

NAME
http-stress - simple http parallel client for http server stress measurements.

SYNOPSIS
http-stress [:verify=true] [:port=80] [:forks=5] [:cycles=5] [:sleep=0] [host] [url1] [url2] [...]

DESCRIPTION
http-stress is a simple http command-client which fetches randomly selected urls from the host specified. The program creates parallel client forks where each client cycles through the specified number of times.

  COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

:verify=XXXXX
    The XXXXX is true or false. If true then the urls are first fetched one by one in order with the http result headers displayed to the standard output.

:port=XXXX
    The XXXXX can be any legal port number, default 80.

:cycles=XXXXX
    The XXXXXX number of hits for each client fork, default 5.

:forks=XXXXX
    The XXXXX number of client forks running in parallel, default 5.

:sleep=X
    The number of seconds X to sleep after sending the http request and before reading the response. Defaults to 0.

host
    The host defaults to localhost.

url The url defaults to /. Multiple urls may be specified.

FILES
http-stress http-stress.scm

IDENTIFICATION
author: George J. Carrette

SEE ALSO
siod http://people.delphi.com/gjc/siod.html