ABOUT SIEGE
Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It lets its user hit a web server with a configurable number of simulated web browsers. Those browsers place the server “under siege.”
PLATFORM SUPPORT
Siege was written on GNU/Linux and has been successfully ported to AIX, BSD, HP-UX and Solaris. It should compile on most System V UNIX variants and on most newer BSD systems. Because Siege relies on POSIX.1b features not supported by Microsoft, it will not run on Windows. Of course you can use Siege to test a Windows HTTP server.
NEWS & RELEASE INFORMATION
SIEGE-2.70 Jul 17, 2010 00:47 EDT This version provides a mechanism to allow siege to log in as a variety of different users. It fixes a bug in which cookies weren’t sent if the domain had a leading dot. It also adds colorized output and color-coded error messages
SIEGE-2.69 May 11, 2009 13:30 EDT is the current stable release. This version includes modifications to the joedog convenience library and several minor improvements and bug fixes.
SIEGE-2.68 April 20, 2009 07:30 EDT is the current stable release. This version adds support for digest authentication and includes several bug fixes. Users should see improvements in its ability to test HTTPS
SIEGE-BETA - Developers should submit patches that are diff’d against the latest beta.
“This is an excellent application that does something expensive suites don’t. ie. It does what the users expects it to do, and does it simply.”
– Sgt. Scrub
Where's Pom?
Hi, for my test, I tried to use siege with dvwa app (open source app with security problem), in this application there is a login page with POST method.
I wrote in siegerc file, the parameter
login-url = http://192.168.56.101/index.php?user=admin&pass=pass
with command:
siege -d1 -c50 -i -f /home/stefano/url.txt
receive always http 302 or 400
I think to have some problems with authentications. Can you help me?
Sorry for my English…
Stefano
The FAQ will instruct you how to build a POST. It should look like this:
http://server/dvwa/index.php POST user=admin&pass=password
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Thank you for the great post!
Hi
When I’m trying to setup 400 concurrent users I’m getting “[fatal] unable to allocate memory for 400 simulated browser: Cannot allocate memory”
The host has 8GB or RAM and and I tried with 16GB as well. Do you know how can I actually increase the concurrency number? Thanks.
Daniel