Gavin Las - 2003-10-27

Hello,

Currently I use HttpUnit for unit tests. However, I would like to use it for performance / load testing. I have written a simple package to create a number of threads, each with their own WebConversation, execute a request and record the time take for the response. I have the following concerns:

- Does httpunit parse the response before the conversation.getResponse( req ) method returns. I get the time before and after this method based on the assumption that this method does not spend time parsing the response.

- Can httpunit get all the images, etc on a page (just like a browser). How can we manage the caching of these images (esp for multiple clients).

- What is the http clients performance like? How does it compare to Jakarta httpclient?

Thanks
Gavin