[CentOS] http request, which command is good for testing

Benjamin Franz jfranz at freerun.com
Wed Dec 8 12:31:41 UTC 2010


On 12/06/2010 10:52 AM, adrian kok wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I just know there are curl / lwp-request, lynx and elinks
>
> Which command is good for http testing?

What kind of testing? Throughput? Testing the output of scripts? Broken 
link detection? You need to define what you mean by 'http testing'.

For simple 'how fast is my webserver' testing, 'ab' works ok and is part 
of the default Apache webserver install.

-- 
Benjamin Franz



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