That's the easy way. Let me know of any problems you find.
Thanks,
Guy
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:05 +0100, Rainer Jung wrote:
> Skye Poier Nott schrieb:
> > Even better - very cool patch!! Like many people, I'm interested
> > primarily in simulating real world traffic and round_robin doesn't
> > really cut it.
> >
> > So is it in SVN or... ?
>
> At the moment it exists as an attachment to older mails of Guy to the
> same list. See e.g. his mail on February 22:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200802.mbox/raw/%3c1203707287.9843.28.camel@localhost.localdomain%3e/2
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer
>
>
> > Skye
> >
> >
> >
> > On 17-Mar-08, at 10:54 AM, Guy Ferraiolo wrote:
> >
> >> It works a bit differently because it does text substitution. That's a
> >> more general case and is much more common for our needs. Here's how it
> >> would work in your case:
> >>
> >> 1. use a requesttemplate
> >> 2. the URL would be http://w${RANVAR}.example.com/file.html
> >> RANVAR is the substitution variable, you can pick your
> >> variable names and have more than one in a URL
> >> 3. create a substitution file containing lines with the text
> >> you want substituted as (example file name mysubstfile):
> >> 0000\n
> >> 0001\n
> >> ...
> >> 9999\n
> >> 4. Have a config file with a subst_list entry like this
> >>
> >> <subst_list>
> >> <subst_entry>
> >> <subst_var>RANVAR</subst_var>
> >> <subst_file>/path-to/mysubstfile</subst_file>
> >> <subst_entry>
> >> <subst_list>
> >>
> >>
> >> The win is that the subst file can contain lots of things beyond random
> >> numbers. It's very easy to create a subst file from an access log and
> >> get very good agreement with your actual traffic. So URLs like
> >> http://example.com/?q=${QUERYFROMREALTRAFFIC} work fine. You can do
> >> port numbers too.
> >>
> >> Very large subst files work fine.
> >>
> >> Guy
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:43 -0700, Skye Poier Nott wrote:
> >>> Interesting..
> >>>
> >>> I have 10,000 host aliases setup up from w0000.example.com to
> >>> w9999.example.com so your patch would let me do something like http://
> >>> w{random number from 0000-9999}.example.com/file.html in the urllist?
> >>> Well that would sure cut down on the size of the flood config xml.
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully your patch can do zero padding of random numbers! What's
> >>> the url for the patch file?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Skye
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 17-Mar-08, at 10:37 AM, Guy Ferraiolo wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Actually, I think my current patch which does randomization on URLs
in
> >>>> round_robin profiles provides a bit more.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any news on the patch, folks?
> >>>>
> >>>> Guy
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:35 -0700, Skye Poier Nott wrote:
> >>>>> It looks like (contrary to the docs) the only available <profiletype>
> >>>>> for flood is round_robin.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anyone have a patch to support <profiletype>random</
> >>>>> profiletype>?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If not, and I write one, would you be interested in the patch?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Skye
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> --
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> >> --
> >> Guy Ferraiolo mailto:guyf@CNET.com
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