Re: a few questions.. huge load testing job

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

Aaron,

On Dec 10, 2007 7:04 PM, aaron smith <bei...@gm...>
wrote:

> Thanks Robert! I''ll be trying this out sometime today or tomorrow and let
> you know what happens..
>
>
> > POST //amfphp/gateway.php HTTP/1.1
> > Accept: */*
> > Accept-Language: en-US
> > Referer: http://www.petmoustache.com/global/swf/main.swf
> > x-flash-version<http://www.petmoustache.com/global/swf/main.swfx-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.
> >
> >
Better late, than nether.
Occasionally, I seen, that our checks do not allow POST-ing
of a binary file without any POST-form.

The error message will be something like: error: post_data is NULL.

Therefore, I have committed a small patch.
Y can either checkout the latest svn code, or apply the patch attached.

Best wishes.

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