Re: Interesting STats, or not?

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nathanma@xxxxxxxxx>]

>As you may or may not know, I released GETURI
>this weekend as open source.  It lets you make a
>request to a web server and save the response (file,
>stream file, or display).

Brad,

This is a nice little utility.  I downloaded it, and added a tight loop in
the CL program to help me do some stress testing of a web site.  For those
who haven't looked at this utility, it runs an RPG program that opens a
socket connection to a web server, sends an HTTP request, reads the HTTP
response, then either displays or logs it.  The web server can be on the
same AS/400 or any other computer you can access via TCP/IP.  The RPG source
is useful for learning how to write socket client programs;  learning to
write socket servers is not much harder.

It was interesting to see the HTTP headers included in the response file.  A
nice way to learn HTTP.  You don't get that when you view the page source
from Internet Explorer.


>Not very scientific, but interesting.  I plan on trying
>a CGI program next.  I assume that the instance jobs
>will be used more than the main job for CGI.
>If anyone wants me to try something, let me know.
>It's fun to bog the network (no calls yet) and pound
> on my webserver.

I'm curious to hear about the results of hitting a CGI program repeatedly.


+++ Nathan +++



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