[Gllug] web server benchmarking / DOS tool

[Doug Winter]

On Tue 29 Jul Ian Norton wrote:
> oh btw, requesting a cgi script 60 times over 10 connections using my adsl
> to connect to a raq at a hosting company made the raq crash, surely 60 http
> requests in 5sec shouldnt be enough to down a webserver? or are raq's that
> crap?

You should be able to request anything you like without it crashing.
Sure it'll run out of resources at some point, but it should *never*
crash.

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