SIEGE: An Open
Source Stress Tester:
“Siege is an http regression testing and benchmarking
utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the
performance of their code under duress, to see how it will stand up
to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication,
cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It allows the user hit a web
server with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users.
Those users place the webserver “under siege.””
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