webrandom

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Webrandom

Webrandom provides HTTP services analogous to /dev/null, /dev/random and /dev/zero.

This program is mostly useful as a dummy web server to measure performance of HTTP clients and proxies.

Usage

$ webrandom [ -http localhost:8080 ]

The following requests are supported:

• POST /null
• GET /random/<size in bytes>
• GET /zero/<size in bytes>

Examples

Upload a file:

$ curl -X POST -d @rand http://localhost/null

Download a 1 GB file of random data:

$ curl -o rand http://localhost/random/1048576

Download a 1 GB file of zero data:

$ curl -o zero http://localhost/zero/1048576