wbox - HTTP testing tool and configuration-less HTTP server

       wbox was written by Salvatore 'antirez' Sanfilippo <antirez@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Alberto Furia <straluna@email.it>, for the Debian  project  (and  may  be
       used by others).

                                                December 10, 2009                                        WBOX(1)

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-lessHTTPserver to share files!

       wbox - HTTP testing tool and configuration-less HTTP server

<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 servermode(default20).-hor--help
              Show this help.

       -v     Show version.

wbox <url> [ options ]
       wbox servermode webroot <path> [serverport <portnumber> (def 8081)]

       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.

       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 split 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)