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NAME

       httest - test HTTP driven application

SYNOPSIS

       httest [OPTIONS] scripts

DESCRIPTION

       httest  is  a script based tool for testing and benchmarking web applications, web servers, proxy servers and web browsers. httest can emu-
       late clients and servers in the same test script, very useful for testing proxys.

OPTIONS

       -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

       -w --warn
	      log level warn

       -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

EXAMPLES

       httest script.htt

       httest -Ts script.htt

SCRIPTS

       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 prox-
       ies. 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

AUTHOR

       Written by Christian Liesch

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/projects/htt

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 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 PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

httest 2.2.6							     June 2012								 HTTEST(1)