This is a collection of static files you can use to test a web server. Be sure to change the permissions of the file test.txt so you get a 403 code when accessing it:

chmod ugo-r web/static/files/test.txt

In the test directory is a script to test how well your server conforms to the HTTP protocol:

python protocol.py [-s server] [-p port]

This will send various messages and check for the proper response.

You can load test a web server using

python stress-test.py [host]:[port][path] -t [threads] -d [duration]

For example:

python stress-test.py localhost:8000/static/files/largefile.txt -t 10 -d 10

This will create 10 threads each downloading the given file for 10 seconds.

You can use a generated workload to test your web server using

python generator.py --server [host] --port [port] -l [load] -d [duration]

This will generate load on your server using an exponential distribution whose average is given by [load], for [duration] seconds.

For example,

python generator.py --port 8000 -l 10 -d 30

will generate 10 clients per second, for 30 seconds, accessing the web server on localhost at port 8000.

When the script runs, each session generates output with the format:

[sessionID] [URI] [status] [bytes] [seconds]

where:

[sessionID] is a unique identifier for the session
[URI] is the URI of the file downloaded
[status] is the status phrase returned by the server
[bytes] is the number of bytes downloaded
[seconds] is the time it took to download the URI, in seconds