autobench on HTTPS endpoint

Question

How do I set in autobench that I'm testing an HTTPS (port 443) URL?

When I call it with:

autobench --single_host --host1 host.com --port1 443 --uri1 /hello --num_conn 1000 --timeout 5 --low_rate 10 --high_rate 50 --rate_step 10 --num_call 10 --quiet --file results.tsv

it shows:

httperf.parse_status_line: invalid status line `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">'!!
httperf.parse_status_line: bad status 1

Which is not correct because that HTTPS page (in the example above would be https://host.com/hello) returns a valid 200 OK response.

Thanks

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '11 at 18:11

You need to add the following line to your ~/.autobench.conf file:

httperf_ssl = NULL

--ssl is a command-line argument of httperf, which autobench calls underneath. The NULL value means to not pass a value for that arg to httperf.

Generally speaking, you can add any additional command-line arguments to httperf by putting them in the config file and prepending them with httperf_. Another example:

httperf_add-header = "Authorization: Basic Zm9vOmJhcg=="

is equivalent to running httperf --add-header "Authorization: Basic Zm9vOmJhcg=="

autobench on HTTPS endpoint

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