HTTP Performance Meter - Rodrigo Albani de Campos (camposr@gmail.com)

A simple HTTP performance meter.

httpmeter reads a file and performs http requests based on the contents of this file.

To compile httpmeter you need the SSL header files and libraries (libssl-dev package).

The configuration file is as follows:

@<hostname>
<multiple line request data>
-

A single dash ends the request data for a given http request, for example:

@www.wired.com
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.wired.com
User-Agent: httpmeter
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Connection: close
-

Multiple requests can be described in the same file, in this case the tests will be performed serially in the
same order.

Output is as follows:

<request number>;<date time>;<hostname>;<time to connect>;<time to first byte>;<time to complete>;<total bytes read>;<http status>

Example:

1;2013-07-09 13:24:35 -0700;www.adobe.com;0.646291;0.298515;1.001212;83066;200
2;2013-07-09 13:24:37 -0700;www.google.com;0.175095;0.204023;0.204028;992;302
3;2013-07-09 13:24:37 -0700;acesso.uol.com.br;0.048146;0.014997;0.015038;2015;200
4;2013-07-09 13:24:37 -0700;pro.gigaom.com;0.316054;0.919837;0.919846;602;302
5;2013-07-09 13:24:39 -0700;www.adobe.com;0.179552;0.186440;0.724679;83066;200
6;2013-07-09 13:24:41 -0700;4chan.org;0.167044;0.662038;0.662045;1847;301
7;2013-07-09 13:24:42 -0700;www.wired.com;0.059671;0.017874;0.018334;163;301


httpmeter supports the following command line options:

HTTPMETER version 0.6 (Tethys)
Usage:
	-f	Name of the file containing HTTP requests
	-s	Use SSL for socket communications (HTTPS)
	-v	Verbose level, use multiple times to increase verbosity
	-V	Display version number
	-h	Display usage information
	-t	Timeout in seconds (default: 300 seconds)
	-p	Show progress
	-o	Write results to file instead of standard output
	-D	Show time as seconds since epoch
	-4	Do not use IPv6 even when the AAAA record exists