[BNM] apache ab -p and post file

[Ben Lobo]

2008/11/26 Jason Bailey <j.bailey at sussex.ac.uk>:
> Hello,
>
> Not sure if anyone has used apache ab (benchmark) in anger to benchmark
> sites? Any other free (or free trial) stuff that I could try for https and
> form submission?

I've just started using Siege - http://www.joedog.org/JoeDog/Siege -
which lets you submit forms for benchmarking and load testing. It even
lets you submit file attachments in posts.

It's also got a sort of helper app called Sproxy which creates the
urls that you want to test (including get and post parameters).

I'm new to it so don't know how well it performs yet or what the
reporting is like but it seems pretty good from what I've read about
it. It's not for Windows though unless you're running cygwin I think.

> Has anyone got any examples of what to stick in the post-file (-p) option
> of ab to submit values to a form. Looks simple but not sure I'm getting it
> right
>
> ab -n 100 -c -p post.txt
>
> where post.txt contains
> parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2
>
> Is that it? Assuming I want to submit via post two variables/parameters?
>
> I'm using webscarab to monitor the http traffic and what's coming back
> didn't look right; mind you it was nearly bed time.
>
> Thanks
> Jason
> --

Ben