Re^2: Need slow web client

Thank you for your comment. But I really want to do a synthetic check whether the proxy is buffering (like promised) the output of the application server (which resides on a different machine). I do agree that this behaviour is only meaningful with returning big responses.

Personally I like this kind of comment hopefully broaden someone's view.

McA

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Re^3: Need slow web client by rjt (Curate) on Mar 22, 2013 at 00:16 UTC
But I really want to do a synthetic check whether the proxy is buffering (like promised) the output of the application server (which resides on a different machine). Maybe I'm missing something, but can you simply check the web server logs to confirm the request came from the proxy instead of the endpoint? And/or check the proxy logs (perhaps increasing the log level for server connection/caching details)? That should at least answer that question. Most proxies also allow you to customize HTTP headers to some extent, so you can even stick some metadata in there to help get more objective results in your testing. For a very simple "slow client", the LWP::UserAgent callback suggestion is reasonable for a starting point.	[reply]

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Re^3: Need slow web client
by rjt (Curate) on Mar 22, 2013 at 00:16 UTC

But I really want to do a synthetic check whether the proxy is buffering (like promised) the output of the application server (which resides on a different machine).

Maybe I'm missing something, but can you simply check the web server logs to confirm the request came from the proxy instead of the endpoint? And/or check the proxy logs (perhaps increasing the log level for server connection/caching details)? That should at least answer that question. Most proxies also allow you to customize HTTP headers to some extent, so you can even stick some metadata in there to help get more objective results in your testing.

For a very simple "slow client", the LWP::UserAgent callback suggestion is reasonable for a starting point.

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