Using Siege to replace curl

[Joseph Hardeman]

Hi Everyone,

Maybe you can help me, I am trying to test a site but have been using curl since that is what the original script I was handed used.  I was wondering if I can replace it with siege.  Here is the command I am running one of a few that is :)

curl -H AUTH_TOKEN:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -s -k --data-binary @/tmp/directory/04865c9d9f4150b608f725609d72be603f88b136.xml.gz http://testsite.testsite.com/upload

I have around 2000 files I want to upload and benchmark this site with, but I am not getting the results I want from curl so I was hoping I could use siege instead.

Thanks

Joe

[Jeff Fulmer]

That looks like a multi-part form upload. Siege doesn't support that.
I keep waiting for someone to send me a patch that implements that.
Maybe I'll have to write that myself.... :-(

[Joseph Hardeman]

Hey Jeff,

From what I can tell the curl script uploads/posts a gzipped xml file and that file is stored in a database, they have another process that then extracts the info from that file.  I have ab working to post, but would rather used siege simply because I can tell it to benchmark it and blast the heck out of their web server.  LOL

Joe

[Jeff Fulmer]

Siege can post a file like this:

siege http://www.haha.com/homer POST < /my/file.gz

But it won't set multi-part headers so I'm sure you're server will be
like WTF? and ignore it

The file redirect is is mainly used to simplify POSTs by storing POST data

[Joseph Hardeman]

Hey Jeff,

I don't think it will work either, also, I am not seeing it using the .gz file, it won't even attempt it with the POST added in.  I am passing the -H or --header info but its not using it, I am just getting redirects back from the server.

I appreciate the response though.

Joe

[Jeff Fulmer]

I'll add that support someday but it probably won't be fast enough for you....

Cheers,
Jeff

[Joseph Hardeman]

LOL  Nope, not today at least.  heehee

Thanks for everything, if I ever get some time, maybe I will take a swing at it. :-)

Thanks for everything.

[Joseph Hardeman]

Hey Jeff,

Well I will be a country bumpkin, it was in the way I was using the commands, it does work.

By putting it in this way, the gzip file is being uploaded to their webserver:

siege -R /root/.siegerc --header="AUTH_TOKEN:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" "http://testsite.testsite.com/uploads POST </tmp/testing/befe361eb9bfc4753787343bf2e0bf9b7eb00a5d.xml.gz"

I edited the xml file and put JOE in the name line and can see it in their database now.

Very cool.  :-)

Joe