httest : HTTP test tool

about httest

http://htt.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cwiki/bin/public?page=HomePage

In short , httest is HTTP related testing tools. You can do request and response validation testing , file upload , web sockets , load testing , client and server simulation etc with httest.

[ install httest on Fedora 18 including trial and error logs ]

[root@f18 ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) [root@f18 ~]# uname -ri 3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64 x86_64 [root@f18 ~]# gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8)

The following is a dependency list to build httest

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS -------------------- Prerequisits:  * libapr-1  * libapr-util-1  * libpcre  * libssl Optional:  * liblua (5.1 or 5.2)

In my fedora box , I have already installed httpd via “yum install httpd”

[root@f18 hattori]# tar xzvf httest-2.4.3.tar.gz [root@f18 hattori]# cd httest-2.4.3/

compile.

error

[root@f18 httest-2.4.3]# ./configure checking for select... yes checking for socket... yes ./configure: line 12097: apr-1-config: command not found libapr is missing

[root@f18 httest-2.4.3]# yum install -y libapreq2 libapreq2-devel

try again.

[root@f18 httest-2.4.3]# ./configure checking for select... yes checking for socket... yes ./configure: line 12107: pcre-config: command not found libpcre is missing

[root@f18 httest-2.4.3]# yum install pcre-devel

okay.

# ./configure config.status: creating plugins/xemacs/Makefile config.status: creating test/Makefile config.status: creating config/config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands #

nnn , error

[root@f18 httest-2.4.3]# make Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hattori/httest-2.4.3/src' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../config   -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE   -pthread  -g -O2  -I/usr/include/apr-1   -I/usr/include/apr-1    -c httest.c httest.c:37:25: fatal error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[1]: *** [httest.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hattori

[root@f18 httest-2.4.3]# yum install -y openssl-devel

try again

okay , I was able to build httest.

# make # make install

[root@f18 httest-2.4.3]# /usr/local/bin/httest --version httest 2.4.3 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 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Christian Liesch

[ sample usage ]

there is a PDF manual and sample configurations from http://htt.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cwiki/bin/public?page=HttDocumentation

httest box ( 192.168.11.100 )  ----- httpd ( 192.168.11.53 )

make a script file

on the httest box

# cat load1.txt CLIENT _REQ 192.168.11.53 80 __GET / HTTP/1.1 __Host: foo.bar __ _WAIT END

run httest

[root@f18 hattori]# /usr/local/bin/httest -d load1.txt run load1.txt                                                                        CLT0-0 start ... _REQ 192.168.11.53 80 __GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 __Host: foo.bar __ _EXPECT . "200 OK" _WAIT >GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 >Host: foo.bar > <HTTP/1.1 200 OK <Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:01:34 GMT <Server: Apache/2.4.4 (Fedora) <Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:57:15 GMT <ETag: "6-4de57cfbf3f88" <Accept-Ranges: bytes <Content-Length: 6 <Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 < <hello OK

capture data which was collected on httpd box.

[root@localhost ~]# tshark -i eth0 port 80 Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous. Capturing on eth0  0.000000 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 74 44962 > http [SYN] Seq=0 Win=14600 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 TSval=13643465 TSecr=0 WS=128  0.000134 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 TCP 74 http > 44962 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=14480 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 TSval=11353062 TSecr=13643465 WS=128  0.000297 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 66 44962 > http [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=14720 Len=0 TSval=13643465 TSecr=11353062  0.000544 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 90 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]  0.000609 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 TCP 66 http > 44962 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=25 Win=14592 Len=0 TSval=11353062 TSecr=13643465  0.000653 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 68 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]  0.000699 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 TCP 66 http > 44962 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=27 Win=14592 Len=0 TSval=11353062 TSecr=13643465  0.000722 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 79 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]  0.000740 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 TCP 66 http > 44962 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=40 Win=14592 Len=0 TSval=11353062 TSecr=13643465  0.000760 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 68 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]  0.000776 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 TCP 66 http > 44962 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=42 Win=14592 Len=0 TSval=11353062 TSecr=13643465  0.000795 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 HTTP 68 GET /index.html HTTP/1.1  0.000811 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 TCP 66 http > 44962 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=44 Win=14592 Len=0 TSval=11353062 TSecr=13643465  0.001442 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 HTTP 311 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/html)  0.001542 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 66 44962 > http [ACK] Seq=44 Ack=246 Win=15744 Len=0 TSval=13643466 TSecr=11353063  0.002032 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 66 44962 > http [FIN, ACK] Seq=44 Ack=246 Win=15744 Len=0 TSval=13643467 TSecr=11353063  0.002441 192.168.11.53 -> 192.168.11.100 TCP 66 http > 44962 [FIN, ACK] Seq=246 Ack=45 Win=14592 Len=0 TSval=11353064 TSecr=13643467  0.002581 192.168.11.100 -> 192.168.11.53 TCP 66 44962 > http [ACK] Seq=45 Ack=247 Win=15744 Len=0 TSval=13643467 TSecr=11353064

silent mode ( -s = silent , -T = timestamp )

[root@f18 hattori]# [root@f18 hattori]# /usr/local/bin/httest -Ts load1.txt Wed Jun 05 03:03:31 2013  run load1.txt                                              OK

there are sample configurations under /httest-x.x.x/examples directory

[root@f18 examples]# pwd /home/hattori/httest-2.4.3/examples [root@f18 examples]# ls auto_cookie.htt   macro_post.htt  ntlm2.htt      transfertypes.htt clientserver.htt  Makefile        ntlm2sess.htt  websocket_client.htt concurrent.htt    Makefile.am     ntlm.htt       websocket_html.htt include.htt       Makefile.in     simple.htt macro_get.htt     matchexec.htt   ssl.htt

[root@f18 hattori]# cat load2.txt # 1000 concurrent clients, loop 50000 times each client CLIENT 1000 50000  _REQ 192.168.11.53 80  __GET /index.html HTTP/1.1  __Host: foo.bar  __User-Agent: mozilla  __  _WAIT END

syslog on httpd box. sending syn cookies.

Jun  5 03:06:16 localhost kernel: [11877.923678] TCP: TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.  Check SNMP counters. Jun  5 03:07:54 localhost kernel: [11975.438593] net_ratelimit: 272 callbacks suppressed