Testing CGI operations

[Tom Backer Johnsen]

As part of a wish to throughly test some CGI scripts I use for surveys,
I would like to control the information transmitted to the script, from
a series of (simulated) clients. As far as I see at the moment (and
admittedly, my insight is limited) I have two alternatives.

Either there exists some way of scripting for a browser that would
allow me to control what the browser is sending off to the script on
the server. I am not aware of any function like that.

Alternatively, I could write something that transmitted the correct
information to the script via port 80 to simulate GET and POST
operations.

What would be the simplest way to ahieve this goal ? Would any of the
Indy elements be of any use ?

Tom

[J Hall]

In article <3CCDAFC1...@psych.uib.no>, Tom Backer Johnsen says...

Hi,

> As part of a wish to throughly test some CGI scripts I use for surveys,
> I would like to control the information transmitted to the script

Look at the MS web stress tool http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com/ or a
very good app is OpenSTA, but has a bit of a learning curve
http://opensta.org/

J

[Tom Backer Johnsen]

That was not what I was looking for -- I think. I want to send a few,
controlled and carefully planned, sets of responses to the script
>
> J