Hello All:
I've written some mod_perl scripts that need testing
over a million hits or so before I deploy it. I need
to prove to myself and my marketing guy that my script
has certain statistical properties, not the least of
which is the question of whether my activity logs match
what actually happened. Also, there's concurrency
issues to make sure I've got right.
Fortunately, I have lots of nice logfiles that I could
use to very closely simulate the traffic my scripts
will see.
It seems like I need a script that sends out requests
taken from a logfile to a responding mod_perl script
running my script as a subrequest, and then tranmogifies
the headers in the subrequest's response so that they
can be sent back with the proper headers, perhaps by
prepending an "X-Test-Response-" to each of the sub-
request's headers. The requester script would then
process the response, say by putting the subrequest's
headers and the MD5 checksum of the content into a
database, for later analysis.
For the visually oriented, this is a diagram of what I
want:
+-- Test request with headers that
| my script will actually see w/
| "X-Test-Request-" prepended
|
+-- Log entry | +-- subrequest w/
+--------+ | | | faked headers
| | | | |
| Logs | V +-----------+ V +-----------+ V +---------+
| |-->| |-->| |-->| |
+--------+ | Requester | | Responder | | Script |
+--------+ | Script | | Script | | to Test |
| |<--| |<--| |<--| |
| DB | ^ +-----------+ ^ +-----------+ ^ +---------+
| | | | |
+--------+ | | +-- subrequest
+-- DB table | response
row w/ |
relevant +-- Test response with my script's
headers & response headers having
MD5 chksum "X-Test-Response-" prepended
of content
Questions:
1) Is there a more elegant way of solving my problem?
2) Has this been done before?
2a) If so, is the source for that available?
2b) If not, is a tool like this useful for anyone else,
so that I should build it better than I would a once-off?
What would make it more useful?
Thanks in advance for your help.
--Christopher Everett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
641-472-4178
