List,
During the last hours I've been trying to find a faster HTTP
client to integrate into w3af, and also performed some experiments
[0]. After testing some implementations, clients, programming
methodologies, etc. It seems that I've found the winner:
geventhttpclient [1].
With my tests with different methods I was only able to achieve
~650 req/s , but according to geventhttpclient's home page it can
achieve ~4000 req/s (when tested in my environment it was around ~3500
req/s). This is VERY impressive.
There are some bad things about this library, like the C code used
for parsing the HTTP response which could bring some issues to Windows
users; and its dependency on gevent which adds one more dependency to
w3af; but with such a huge perf enhancement... I don't care ;)
Has someone researched on the topic of fast HTTP clients? Opinions? Ideas?
[0] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/browser/extras/measure_http?rev=5041
[1] https://github.com/gwik/geventhttpclient
Regards,
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Andrés Riancho
Project Leader at w3af - http://w3af.org/
Web Application Attack and Audit Framework
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