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diff --git a/scripts/async-http.py b/scripts/async-http.py index 66c502de..fe7847b7 100644 --- a/scripts/async-http.py +++ b/scripts/async-http.py @@ -21,6 +21,23 @@ PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. # Command that may be useful for testing server side of this: # # lynx -post_data -mime_header -source http://127.0.0.1:8000/ +# +# Testing the client side of this is more entertaining, both because +# we need to be liberal in what we accept and also because servers do +# wildly different things depending both on HTTP version number and +# options signaled by the client and also on internal details in the +# server context (such as whether the content is static or generated +# by CGI). It's useful to test against static content, but also to +# test against CGI-generated output, eg, the following trivial script: +# +# print "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII\r" +# print "\r" +# for i in xrange(100): +# print "%08d" % i, "." * 120, "\r" +# +# At least with Apache 2.0, result of running this differs +# significantly depending on whether client signals HTTP 1.0 or 1.1; +# the latter produces chunked output. import sys, os, time, socket, asyncore, asynchat, traceback, urlparse import rpki.async |