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httest - test HTTP driven application httest [\,OPTIONS\/] \,scripts\/ httest is a script based tool for testing and benchmarking web applications, web servers, proxy servers and web browsers. httest can emulate clients and servers in the same test script, very useful for testing proxys.

-V --version Print version number and exit

-h --help Display usage information (this message)

-n --suppress do no print start and OK|FAILED

-s --silent silent mode

-e --error log level error

-i --info log level info

-d --debug log level debug for script debugging

-p --debug-system log level debug-system to log more details

-L --list-commands List all available script commands

-C --help-command Print help for specific command

-t --duration Print test duration

-T --timestamp Time stamp on every run

-S --shell Shell mode

-S --shell Shell mode

-D --define Define variables

-l --log-thread-number Show the thread number for every printed line

-b --color Colored output

httest is script based. The following script examples can be but into a scripte i.e. sample.htt and can be called like

httest sample.htt
 "SIMPLE SCRIPT"
Get a page and do expect return code 200 OK.

CLIENT
_REQ www.google.ch 80
__GET /search?q=apache HTTP/1.1
__Host: www.google.ch
__
_EXPECT headers "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
_WAIT
END
 "CUT AND PAST SCRIPT"
Cut and past from a HTTP stream, i.e we cut the apache host to access it in the second request. 

CLIENT
_REQ www.google.ch 80
__GET /search?q=apache HTTP/1.1
__Host: www.google.ch
__
_MATCH body '\\<a href="http://([^\\/]*)/" class=l\\>Welcome! - The \\<em\\>Apache\\</em\\> HTTP Server Project' APACHE_HOST
_WAIT

_REQ $APACHE_HOST 80
__GET / HTTP/1.1
__Host: $APACHE_HOST
__
_WAIT
END
 "CLIENT SERVER SCRIPT"
We can hold client and server in the same host. Actually multiple client and multiple server.
Very useful to test forward or reverse proxies. Or a webapplication which communicat itself with third party servers i.e. mail server.

This is a very basic selfcontained test you can run on any maschine.

CLIENT
_REQ localhost 8080
__GET /foo HTTP/1.1
__Host: localhost
__
_WAIT
END

SERVER 8080
_RES
_EXPECT "/foo"
_WAIT
__HTTP/1.1 200 OK
__Content-Length: AUTO
__
__Hello World
END
 "SSL SCRIPT"
Of course SSL do also work with httest, just put "SSL:" before port.

CLIENT
_REQ localhost SSL:8080
__GET /foo HTTP/1.1
__Host: localhost
__
_WAIT
END

SERVER SSL:8080
_RES
_EXPECT "/foo"
_WAIT
__HTTP/1.1 200 OK
__Content-Length: AUTO
__
__Hello World
END
 EXAMPLES
httest script.htt

httest -Ts script.htt
 AUTHOR
Written by Christian Liesch
 "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/projects/htt
 COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.