Wbox: A little tool to do quick HTTP tests

Reading this blog, I came along WBox, a simple web testing command line tool.

Some examples (from the web page):

% wbox www.google.it
WBOX www.google.it (64.233.183.99) port 80
0. 200 OK    3774 bytes    407 ms
1. 200 OK    (3767) bytes    273 ms
2. 200 OK    3767 bytes    304 ms
3. 200 OK    3767 bytes    260 ms
user terminated

Stress testing:

% wbox http://localhost clients 4
WBOX localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80
0. 200 OK    9939 bytes    14 ms
0. 200 OK    9939 bytes    22 ms
0. 200 OK    9939 bytes    26 ms
0. 200 OK    9939 bytes    31 ms
1. 200 OK    9939 bytes    4 ms
1. 200 OK    9939 bytes    7 ms
1. 200 OK    9939 bytes    7 ms
1. 200 OK    9939 bytes    4 ms
2. 200 OK    9939 bytes    4 ms
2. 200 OK    9939 bytes    6 ms
2. 200 OK    9939 bytes    10 ms
2. 200 OK    9939 bytes    3 ms
3. 200 OK    9939 bytes    3 ms
3. 200 OK    9939 bytes    4 ms
3. 200 OK    9939 bytes    7 ms
3. 200 OK    9939 bytes    7 ms
user terminated

Evil little HTTP server:

% wbox servermode webroot /tmp/mydocs
(will serve on Port 8081)

It's not in ports yet, but next time I need something along those lines I'll use the CMMI recipe to build it in ~/bin.