a few questions.. huge load testing job

[aaron s. <bei...@gm...>]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the work on curl loader. I've got a couple questions..

-This should work on a mac right? (intel mac)

-Are there any other documentation/examples of using curl-loader?

I've got a pretty big testing task ahead of me for a soon to be released
website. The site is built with Flex and uses the AMF binary protocol.
(Flash Remoting). The way AMF is transmitted from the player is over regular
HTTP, but the entire AMF message is in the body of the request. And the
content-type is application/x-amf.

The Remoting/AMF Gateway sits on the webserver, and handles Remote Object
calls from Flex. What I need to test is this remoting gateway, with a
combination of pre-saved AMF messages directly from the flash player, and
curl-loader.

I've got a generic solution for capturing an AMF request to a file so that I
can use the pre-generated AMF requests in combination with curl-loader. Is
it possible to specify a file's contents as the contents/body of a request?

The request from the flash player comes over as a POST, but i'm not sure if
the AMF comes over in a form variable? Usually in a remoting gateway I can
get the AMF from the request.raw_body. How does that correlate to a request?

The workflow that I see with curl loader is the batch file, changing the
header to supply the content-type of application/x-amf, and the
content-length. Then associating the AMF from a file with the content/body
of the request.. The site is expected to be getting millions of hits daily
possibly weekly. In any case huge loads.

Has anything like this been accomplished with curl-loader?

Thanks much for any help!
-Aaron