Trying to simulate browser behavior.

[Pranav D. <pra...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am trying to simulate a browser behavior for accessing a front page
(e.g. www.cnn.com). From traces I see that a few requests go over the
same TCP connections (persistence) and in general there are a few TCP
connections made for completely fetching the whole front page.

I am trying to use FRESH_CONNECT to create another TCP connections.
What I was expecting was that all URLs before the FRESH_CONNECT tag
would go on the same connection and after the URL that has the
FRESH_CONNECT tag a new connection would start. So I was expecting to
see 2 GETs for the first TCP connection, 6 on the second TCP conn. and
the rest on the third one. Basically, I was thinking of the URL list
as sequential with conn. close in between.

But that doesn't seem to be case. There are 3 TCP connections, but one
has most of the GETs and the other 2 have one req. each (for which the
tag is specified).

So it seems like curl-loader loads all the URLS with it associated
tags and then access them randomly. Is that correct? If so, is there a
way to have a behavior similar to the one described above.

config file
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BATCH_NAME=test_load
CLIENTS_NUM_MAX=1 # Same as CLIENTS_NUM
CLIENTS_NUM_START=1
CLIENTS_RAMPUP_INC=2
INTERFACE   =eth1
NETMASK=16
IP_ADDR_MIN= 12.0.0.1
IP_ADDR_MAX= 12.0.16.250 #Actually - this is for self-control
CYCLES_NUM=1
URLS_NUM=14

########### URL SECTION ####################################

URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cisco/www.cisco.com/cdc_content_elements/flash/home/sp_072307/spotlight/sp_webEx_tn.jpg
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cisco/www.cisco.com/cdc_content_elements/flash/home/sp_072307/spotlight/sp_CIN.swf
FRESH_CONNECT=1

URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cisco/www.cisco.com/cdc_content_elements/flash/home/sp_072307/spotlight/sp_webEx.swf
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cisco/www.cisco.com/cdc_content_elements/flash/home/sp_072307/spotlight/sp_humanN_anthem_tn.jpg
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/MOO/backfeed10.gif
TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP=2000-5000
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/MOO/bottom.gif
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/MOO/style3.css
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/MOO/topright.gif
FRESH_CONNECT=1

URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/MOO/rss_smaller.gif
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/MOO/index.html.6
TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP=2000-5000
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cnn/www.cnn.com/.element/ssi/www/breaking_news/2.0/banner.html
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cnn/www.cnn.com/.element/ssi/auto/2.0/sect/MAIN/ftpartners/partner.people.html
TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP=2000-5000
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cnn/www.cnn.com/.element/ssi/auto/2.0/sect/MAIN/ftpartners/partner.money.txt
URL=http://192.168.55.205/websites/cnn/www.cnn.com/.element/img/2.0/global/icons/video_icon.gif