[smokeping-users] Re: Curl probe doesn't handle multiple url's

[Rob de Jong]

Thanks a lot Niko,

FYI, the application is that we want to compress printdrivers prior to 
distributing them.
Before we do so, we want to determine what is more favourable: All in 
one archive, or individual archives.
I saw that note about re-using connections, I'll have to deal with it by 
setting up an HTTP ping, and add the HTTP ping RTT to the measurement of 
each file

Love the tools!

R


Niko Tyni wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:18:32PM +1100, Rob de Jong wrote:
> 
>  
>
>>I'd like to measure the time taken to fetch multiple url's with curl, 
>>eg: urlformat = http://%host%/pdf[1-2].pdf
>>My problem is that SmokePing does not seem to handle the fact that curl 
>>is fetching multiple url's.
>>It just grabs the average Total Time of the second url in this case.
>>Is there a way I can achieve this?
>>    
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm not quite sure if this is a good idea... the curl documentation
>states that curl will re-use the same TCP connection when it can, so
>you'll get kind of skewed results. What are you trying to measure
>anyway? It seems to me that one file would be enough to measure
>webserver responsiveness, and if you're trying to measure the bandwidth
>of the connection (to see if it's saturated or something), you'd
>probably be better off with big ICMP packets.
>
>That said, here's a patch that makes multiple URLs (whether in the 
>[]/{} notation or with separate arguments) possible. It needs
>the 'redirect' patch I sent earlier to be applied first.
>
>Cheers,
>  
>

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