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How to make a HTTP Requst from command line

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Use the ab script in the apache bin directory

This can also be used to bench mark webservers : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-performance-benchmarks-a-web-server.html

Usage: ./ab [options] [http[s]://]hostname[:port]/path
Options are:
-n requests     Number of requests to perform
-c concurrency  Number of multiple requests to make
-t timelimit    Seconds to max. wait for responses
-p postfile     File containing data to POST
-T content-type Content-type header for POSTing
-v verbosity    How much troubleshooting info to print
-w              Print out results in HTML tables
-i              Use HEAD instead of GET
-x attributes   String to insert as table attributes
-y attributes   String to insert as tr attributes
-z attributes   String to insert as td or th attributes
-C attribute    Add cookie, eg. ‘Apache=1234. (repeatable)
-H attribute    Add Arbitrary header line, eg. ‘Accept-Encoding: gzip’
Inserted after all normal header lines. (repeatable)
-A attribute    Add Basic WWW Authentication, the attributes
are a colon separated username and password.
-P attribute    Add Basic Proxy Authentication, the attributes
are a colon separated username and password.
-X proxy:port   Proxyserver and port number to use
-V              Print version number and exit
-k              Use HTTP KeepAlive feature
-d              Do not show percentiles served table.
-S              Do not show confidence estimators and warnings.
-g filename     Output collected data to gnuplot format file.
-e filename     Output CSV file with percentages served
-h              Display usage information (this message)
-Z ciphersuite  Specify SSL/TLS cipher suite (See openssl ciphers)

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protocol

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Specify SSL/TLS protocol (SSL2, SSL3, TLS1, or ALL)