"Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was me expecting the net to be flooded with freeware web site load > testers that just GET a bunch or URLs and draw a graph of times taken. > Apparently I was wrong. I have discovered an impressive number of > unuseably bad Java applications and some very simple command line things > that mostly aren't even multi-threaded or forking. > > Am I missing something obvious or am I about to write my own? I only > want basic stuff like handling cookies, POST requests, and simulating > concurrent access by different user agents. Throttling (to simulate > modem users) would be an added bonus. > > I've nothing against paying for a commercial app but I didn't find any > promising looking ones of those, either. > > Ho Hum. More LWP....
I'm using ApacheBench (on CPAN) at the moment, but it doesn't do graphing and I'm not sure how many other things on your list it also doesn't handle. :-( I've also heard of people using http_load (www.acme.com) in the past, but I don't know what that's like. If you want to do shell scripts, you might want to look at curl (http://curl.haxx.se) which also has a perl library behind it and supports large quantities of stuff. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 722222 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |