charlesdaniel/postpound

A NodeJS based script to pound at a URL with as many GET or POST requests (with an optional payload) as possible. Works similar to Apache Benchmark.

postpound node script

by Charles Daniel

License

Public Domain - Use at your own risk

Description

A simple node based script to hammer away at a given URL using POST requests with a given payload and any key/cert combination. It also allows for simple GET requests (defaults to POST).

Usage

• To see the help screen node postpound -h

• To do a simple GET request node -m GET http://www.google.com/

• To see the output of that GET request use a -d node -m GET -d http://www.google.com/

• To POST to a URL create a payload file containing data node --payload=payloadFile http://www.example.com/somescript.cgi

• To POST with key/cert credentials node --payload=payloadFile --key=keyfile.key --cert=certfile.crt http://www.example.com/somescript.cgi

• To specify the number of requests use -n node -n 10 http://www.example.com

• To specify the concurrency use -c node -c 2 http://www.example.com

• If you specify both -n and -c, the n requests will be the total requests (shared by the concurrent attempts) node -c 2 -n 10 http://www.example.com