[Chicago] HTTP server compliance test suite

[Garrett Smith]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ed Marshall <esm at logic.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Garrett Smith <g at rre.tt> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of a test suite I can run against an HTTP server to
>> check for protocol compliance and maybe throw some common bad requests
>> into the mix for testing?
>
> You might take a peek at some of Apache's testing software:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/test/
>
> Some pieces of their perl framework might be applicable, perhaps?
> HTTP Lint:
>
> http://zamez.org/httplint
>
> Fuzzing, if you just want to break something:
>
> http://rfuzz.rubyforge.org/
>
> Also, here's a rather lengthy list of testing tools that might give you
> something to chew on, although most are targeted at web application testing,
> rather than specifically testing HTTP compliance/capabilities:
>
> hapacheapachettp://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html

Thanks for the list Ed.

I ran across this as well:

http://coad.measurement-factory.com/samples/http.html

At $24K for a license, it's quite a bargain.

Well, not for me, but for super rich people.