AppWeb HTTP Client

httpClient -- Retrieve documents from HTTP servers by issuing HTTP client requests.

Synopsis

httpClient [options] urls ...

Description

The httpClient utility uses the AppWeb HTTP client to retrieve documents from HTTP servers. It is primarily designed to test the AppWeb server.

Options

Option	Description
-b	Benchmark. Output timing results after retrieving URLs.
-c	Continue on errors. Default is to stop on the first error.
-C compareDirectory	Compare the retrieved files against master copies in compareDir. Warn if any retrieved files are corrupted.
-d postData	String of post data. Assumed to be already URL encoded. ie. name=peter&address=oz
-f fileList	Retrieve the files in the specified file list. The format of the file is:     {GET|POST} URL If using POST, the line after the URL should contain encoded POST data and it should begin with a TAB.
-H	Output HTTP headers. Useful for debugging.
-h host	Prepend all URLs with the specified host. For example if '-h www.myHost.com:8888" were used with the URL "/index.html", then httpClient will retrieve http://www.myHost.com:8888
-i iterations	Retrieve the URLs iterations times. Useful for load testing.
-l logSpec	Log debug information to the specified log file.
-M method	Set the HTTP method. Values may be "GET", "PUT", "OPTIONS", "TRACE".
-o timeout	Specifies a timeout to use for each request.
-q	Quiet mode. Suppress error messages.
-r retryNumber	Retry failed requests this number of times.
-t threads	Number of threads to use. Each URL will be retrieved by all threads. Useful only for load testing.
-T poolThreads	Specify the number of pool threads to use.
-v	Verbose mode. Trace activity to stdout. Can by specified multiple times for more verbose tracing.
-w writeDir	Write retrieved files to the specified directory.
-V httpVersion	Use the specified HTTP protocol. httpVersion should be either '0' for HTTP/1.0 or 1 for HTTP/1.1.