Can I set multiple headers with Siege?

http-headers load-testing siege
Joe picture Joe · Dec 20, 2013 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I want to use siege to target a number of URLs on my app, each with different headers. I can set headers for one request

siege -u http://localhost/xyz -d1 -r1000 -c25 --header="Token: f2840fc1"

(this appears to be undocumented)

I can specify a list of URLs in the URL file, with custom headers for each URL. But I can't see a way in the docs.

Answer

Joseph Lust picture Joseph Lust · Jan 20, 2016

I suggest using two concurrent calls to siege. Write a URL file that uses Header-A, and another for Header-B.

For my API testing, I've got a get_urls.txt file and post_json_urls.txt file, which I call on two instances of Siege at once. This way one gets called with Content-Type: text/json and the other doesn't. Short of rewriting the Siege url parser, this is the only way I know to do it.

For example:

siege -f get_urls.txt & siege -H 'Content-Type: text/json' -f post_json_urls.txt

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