Make a POST request using ab (apache benchmarking) on a django server
I'm trying to make a HTTP POST request using ab to a form built with django.
I'm using the following line:
ab -n 10 -C csrftoken=my_token -p ab_file.data -T application/x-www-form-urlencoded http://localhost:8000/
My ab_file.data looks like this:
url=my_encoded_url&csrfmiddlewaretoken=my_token
It always returns a 403 status code.
When I use curl using the same parameters, it works. The curl line:
curl -X POST -d "url=my_encoded_url&csrfmiddlewaretoken=my_token" --cookie "csrftoken=my_token" http://localhost:8000/
How can I do that?
Answer
File must have a properly url-encode data. If you url-encode manually, it is too easy to have typos like blanks wrong encodes. Best do it programmatically. See an another answer: Apache Bench and POST data on how to use Python to create such file ( ex: post.data)
Then use:
ab -T 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -n 10 -p post.data http://localhost:8080/