httpgauge is a benchmarking tool for HTTP1.0 and 1.1 web servers. It optionally supports and correctly handles HTTP keep alive requests.
- python 3.3+ is required.
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asynciomust be installed for python 3.3 whereas it is included in python 3.4+
If you install python 3.4, you're all set no other software is required.
If you have python3.3 installed (if you're running ubuntu, you likely do, type python3 -V to confirm), then you need asyncio. Make sure you have pip3 installed via apt-get install -y python3-pip then sudo pip3 install asyncio and you're all set.
httpgaugeonly supports http, not httpshttpguageis subject to python issue 21447 which can cause it to hang to due to a race condition in asyncio. When this is merged in (likely python3.5),httpgaugewill be ready for production. Until then, if it hangs, Ctrl-C and retry.
Make a total of 1000 requests to http://localhost with 100 concurrent requests
httpgauge -n 1000 -c 100 http://localhost/index.html
Same as above except use HTTP Persistent Connections (Keep Alive)
httpgauge -k -n 1000 -c 100 http://localhost/index.html
Print help message
httpgauge -h
httpgauge will print out a report when finished like the following:
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HTTP Gauge 0.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Path: /index.html
Total Requests: 5000
Successful Requests: 5000
Timeouts: 0
Resets: 0
Total Time: 1.449597 seconds
Mean time per successful request: 0.006710 seconds
Mean time per request across all requests: 0.000290 seconds
Requests per second: 3449.23
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