= httpress

High performance HTTP server stress & benchmark utility.

Inspired by [[http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki|weighttp]] tool.

Main features:

• event driven (low memory footprint, large number of connections)
• multi-threaded (uses all cores of your CPU)
• SSL support (via GNUTLS library) with cipher suite selection

Compared to weighttp, httpress offers the following improvements:

• evenly distributes load between threads; does not allow one thread to finish much earlier than others
• promptly timeouts stucked connections, forces all hanging connections to close after the main run, does not allow hanging or interrupted connections to affect the measurement
• SSL support

== Usage

{{{ httpress -n num number of requests (default: 1) -t num number of threads (default: 1) -c num concurrent connections (default: 1) -k keep alive (default: no) -z pri GNUTLS cipher priority (default: NORMAL) -h show this help

example: httpress -n 10000 -c 100 -t 4 -k http://localhost:8080/index.html }}}

== Dependencies

• Depends on [[http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html|libev]] library
• Depends on [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/|GnuTLS]] library (if compiled with SSL support)

== Building from source