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NAME

       bench - http benchmark

SYNOPSIS

       bench [-n requests] [-c concurrency] [-t timeout] [-k] [-K count]
	       [-C cookie-file] [http://]host[:port]/uri

DESCRIPTION

       bench is a HTTP benchmark program that can fetch the same URL over and over again, or fetch several URLs (coming in from stdin).

       If you specify a URL on the command line, this URL will be fetch many times (specify with -n, default: 10000) with several connections open
       in parallen (specify with -c, default: 10).

       You can specify a timeout (per request) in seconds with -t.

       The -k switch activates keep-alive mode.  In keep-alive mode, the TCP connection is not closed between requests.  You also have to  specify
       how many HTTP requests can go over one TCP connection with -K.

       bench  can  also  send  one  HTTP  cookie per connection, as specified using a cookie file.  The cookie file is read line by line, and each
       request gets the next line inserted into it.  So each line should look something like this:

	 Cookie: foo=bar

       If the end of the file is reached, bench restarts it at the beginning.

AUTHOR

       Initially written by Felix von Leitner <felix-gatling@fefe.de>.

LICENSE

       GPLv2 (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

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