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guilherme
Asked: 2011-08-16 04:10:15 +0800 CST

Tool to replay access.log files with cookies?

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Is there any tool that will replay combined access.log-style (or any other format) files back and preserve the cookies?

We need to load test our application with real user accesses but we really need those cookies there. I evaluated JMeter (won't work, you can enable a cookie jar but not read cookies from the log), httperf (also simulates cookie jar), siege (same) and I am stuck.

There are plenty of other tools out there but I couldn't find any that would send cookies along.

http logging testing load-testing

1 Answers

  1. It's not exactly rocket science to script this.

    But it rather presupposes that:

    1. you've logged the relevant cookies

    2. there are no POSTs on the site

    3. there is no session fixation protection on the site

    4. indeed, that the session management is very, very crude.

    libcurl supports setting cookies explicitly before the call

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