Is there a way to make sure that AB gets proper responses from server? For example:
- To force it to output the response of a single request to STDOUT OR
- To ask it to check that some text fragment is included into the response body
I want to make sure that authentication worked properly and i am measuring response time of the target page, not the login form.
Currently I just replace ab -n 100 -c 1 -C "$MY_COOKIE" $MY_REQUEST with curl -b "$MY_COOKIE" $MY_REQUEST | lynx -stdin .
If it's not possible, is there an alternative more comprehensive tool that can do that?
Answer
You can use the -v option as listed in the man doc:
-v verbosity Set verbosity level - 4 and above prints information on headers, 3 and above prints response codes (404, 200, etc.), 2 and above prints warnings and info.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html
So it would be:
ab -n 100 -c 1 -C "$MY_COOKIE" -v 4 $MY_REQUEST
This will spit out the response headers and HTML content. The 3 value will be enough to check for a redirect header.
I didn't try piping it to Lynx but grep worked fine.