This is the command wbox that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
wbox - HTTP testing tool and configuration-less HTTP server
SYNOPSIS
wbox <url> [ options ]
wbox servermode webroot <path> [serverport <portnumber> (def 8081)]
DESCRIPTION
wbox aims to help you having fun while testing HTTP related stuff. You can use it to
perform many tasks, including the following:
- Benchmarking how much time it takes to generate content for your web application.
- Web server and web application stressing.
- Testing virtual domains configuration without the need to alter your local resolver.
- Use it as a configuration-less HTTP server to share files!
OPTIONS
<number>
Stop after <number> requests
compr Send Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate in request
showhdr
Show the HTTP reply header
dump Show the HTTP reply header + body
silent Don't show status lines
head Use the HEAD method instead of GET
http10 Use HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/1.1
close Close the connection after reading few bytes
host <hostname>
Use <hostname> as Host: field in HTTP request
timesplit
Show transfer times for different data chunks
wait <number>
Wait <number> seconds between requests. Default 1.
clients <number>
Spawn <number> concurrent clients (via fork()).
referer <url>
Send the specified referer header.
cookie <name> <val>
Set cookie name=val, can be used multiple times.
maxclients <number>
Max concurrent clients in server mode (default 20).
-h or --help
Show this help.
-v Show version.
USAGE EXAMPLES
wbox wikipedia.org (simplest, basic usage)
wbox wikipedia.org 3 compr wait 0 (three requests, compression, no delay)
wbox wikipedia.org 1 showhdr silent (just show the HTTP reply header)
wbox wikipedia.org timesplit (show splitted time information)
wbox 1.2.3.4 host example.domain (test a virtual domain at 1.2.3.4)
wbox servermode webroot /tmp/mydocuments (Try it with http://127.0.0.1:8081)
TUTORIAL
Wbox is trivial to use but, in order to understand better what wbox is and how to use it,
you may want to read the TUTORIAL inside the /usr/share/doc/wbox/ directory.
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