Re: a few questions.. huge load testing job

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Aaron,

On Dec 10, 2007 3:45 AM, aaron smith <bei...@gm...> wrote:
> I would appreciate the help so much, and a patch would be awesome! Thanks!
> Here is a wireshark dump.

POST //amfphp/gateway.php HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US
Referer: http://www.petmoustache.com/global/swf/main.swf
x-flash-version: 9,0,115,0
Content-Type: application/x-amf
Content-Length: 55561
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Host: petmoustache.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cookie: __utma=110968324.1943311580.1197250082.1197250082.1197250082.1;
__utmb=110968324; __utmc=110968324;
__utmz=110968324.1197250082.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);
PHPSESSID=70624e053d197b61ce5e704d45f1a5ff
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
body
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is the POST, which we see.

The url to be used seems to be:
http://petmoustache.com/amfphp/gateway.php

The essential header to be added via HEADER-tag up to me are:

HEADER="Referer: http://www.petmoustache.com/global/swf/main.swf"
HEADER="x-flash-version: 9,0,115,0"
HEADER="Content-Type: application/x-amf"
HEADER="Cache-Control: no-cache"
HEADER="Cookie:
__utma=110968324.1943311580.1197250082.1197250082.1197250082.1;
__utmb=110968324; __utmc=110968324;
__utmz=110968324.1197250082.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);
PHPSESSID=70624e053d197b61ce5e704d45f1a5ff"

Note, that Cookie is a separate story, which is generated per user and
it depends on
the policy of you web-server. Y may need to play with it or without it, etc.

What the POST is doing is actually uploading some binary file.
We have such an example for the PUT method, namely put.conf.

Your url section may be similar:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
URL=http://petmoustache.com/amfphp/gateway.php
URL_SHORT_NAME="POST-file"
REQUEST_TYPE=POST
UPLOAD_FILE=Atterntion!!!** place a path to your file from
curl-loader, like ./myfile***
HEADER="Referer: http://www.petmoustache.com/global/swf/main.swf"
HEADER="x-flash-version: 9,0,115,0"
HEADER="Content-Type: application/x-amf"
HEADER="Cache-Control: no-cache"
HEADER="Cookie:
__utma=110968324.1943311580.1197250082.1197250082.1197250082.1;
__utmb=110968324; __utmc=110968324;
__utmz=110968324.1197250082.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);
PHPSESSID=70624e053d197b61ce5e704d45f1a5ff"
TIMER_URL_COMPLETION = 0  # In msec. When positive, Now it is enforced
by cancelling url fetch on timeout
TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP =3000

Please, run that (sure on linux) with a single client
and a single cycle with -v and -u options also added (verbose
debugging) to curl-loader
command line (learn for -f <batch file> and other options) and
wireshark capture to see, if there are any problems.

If it works, start increasing, etc.
If not, send to me:
a) the log of curl-loader <your-batch-name>.log;
b) the wireshark capture.


Sincerely,
Robert Iakobashvili,
coroberti %x40 gmail %x2e com
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