--uri option and URLs

[Ted Bullock]

I have been looking at httperf's --uri option and kind of think it is
kind of wrong headed. Currently --uri only accepts the path of a
resource on a host identified by --server. I this behavior really
very desirable? Wouldn't it be "better" to accept full URI's?

Something like url_scheme://myname:mypassword@hostname:port/path?querystring
and figure everything out from it?

Here is my proposal:

Add new option --url (note, this is URL not URI) which calls a URL
parser (uriparser is a candidate here, although a recursive descent
uri parser could be written fairly easily as well)

Thoughts?

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Ted Bullock <tbul...@comlore.com>