On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Richard Chen wrote:

> I would like to know if curl can be used as a web stress testing
> tool. In particular, can one launch in parallel many repeated requestes
> to a single site to evaluate the performance of the site.

To do many requests, you should invoke many curls.

> Also, can one control the keep-alive and test its impact on the
> performance when the server turns it on and off.

No, curl never uses any keep-alive so that can not really be tested with
curl.

Perhaps you should use one or more of the previously mentioned perl scripts
to test the things curl can't do, and use curl to do the things the perl
scripts can't...

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  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/