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What's new in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.12

Mar 24, 2015
  • httest: Bugfix error messages for websocket failures.
  • httest: Bugfix possible core dump on log uninitialized data buffer.
  • httest: Bugfix dso load error suppress error message.
  • httest: New coder to escape regex special characters within strings to use them as literal strings within _EXPECT commands

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.11 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • httest: _WS:SEND BINARY do now expect a string with hex digits example my look like _WS:SEND FIN,BINARY AUTO "00 01 02 03 04 05" this sends 6 bytes 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05 This change is not backward compatible.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.10 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • shrinkwrap: Linux cubieboard build (ARM Cortex-A7)
  • httest: Bugfix problems with older openssl version 0.9.8
  • httest: New local commands are available in global sections as well

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.9 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • httest: Fix multiline variable resolve problem.
  • httest: Set mutex for global pool to make thread handling safe.
  • httest: Mutex for worker clone

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.8 (Aug 24, 2013)

  • httest: Bugfix possible coredump for content pipe from/to _EXEC.
  • httest: Bugfix wrong error trace and avoid another coredump in this context. Error trace no points to the end of a block instead to the start of block where an error occured.
  • httest: Bugfix coredump if daemon is using pools and httest exits on error.
  • htproxy: Bugfix wrong initialized httest commands before calling them.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.7 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • httest: Bugfix wrong error line number on windows
  • httest: _DSO:FUNC method to call a load module function with the signature apr_status_t func(const char *string). Usefull to trigger stuff in the loaded module.
  • packages: shrinkwrap: make check reports

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.6 (Aug 2, 2013)

  • httest: Bugfix racecondition in _SH
  • httest: Bugfix wrong error handling in websockets
  • httest: Bugfix buffer overflow on 64-bit archs

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.5 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • httest: Add missing thread numbers on error if thread number log is
  • turned on
  • httest: Bugfix possible deadlock on read
  • httest: Rename regexec, else a loaded transport module wich do use the
  • posxi pcre will fail, because it will possible call the httest
  • regexec
  • httest: Bugfix found segfault thrown on illegal arguments.
  • httest: Install include/htt/dso.h for dynamic transport object library

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.4 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • httest: Bugfix possible coredump in ssl_module.c
  • httest: Bugfix possible coredump in store.c
  • httest: Experimental dynamic shared object support for transport objects. This could be very useful to test shared libraries directly with the wellknown httest commands.
  • httest: Bugfix missing help text for module commands.
  • httest: Bugfix overflow problem with websocket commands _WS:SEND and WS:RECV.
  • httest: Fixed broken _SSL:TRACE, add >,< again for in/out to make them expectable like before.
  • httest: Fix broken identing after GO.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.3 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • macros: Did cleanup the macros and document the interfaces. Mostly.
  • scripts:Add pentester script folder. Read the pentester.htt how to
  • initialize. Is able to handle the xssAttacks.xml, sqlAttacks.xml
  • and the filesAttacks.xml. Also a greate demonstration for the
  • MILESTONE usage and show the capability of httest.
  • hturl: Removed, use _HTML:PARSE/_HTML:XPATH and _XML:PARSE/_XML:XPATH instead.
  • htx2h: Removed use _BINARY:SEND/_BINARY:RECV to send hex values
  • directly.
  • httest: All block calls can handle VAR(). If you hand over
  • variables with VAR() instead of $ the
  • resolving is done afert calling.
  • httest: A new _MILESTONE command makes it possible to run several sub
  • tests in one script. The test will not fail in a milestone
  • section but will fail at the end with a statistic how many
  • milestone did run and how many failed. Is currently marked
  • experimental.
  • httest: Bugfixed command _DEBUG which did not print anything at all.
  • httest: Correct color on|off to avoid scrambled colors in some cases.
  • httest: Improve _LOOP new it is possible to initialize the loop variable
  • with an initial value. Default this is still 0.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.2 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • httest: Add a change from Alain Stalder for coloring on windows.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.1 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • httest: New you can close the body of _IF simply with a _END command
  • instead with "_END IF".
  • httest: Bugfixed _FOR command, if variable contains newline this also
  • counts as separator.
  • httest: Bugfix appender_std, threads messup colors
  • httest: Bugfix appender_std, variable with newlines did messup output.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.4.0 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • httest: Logger with appender concept introduced to be able to add and use
  • different appenders. Default a standard appender is active.
  • httest: Added colored output in the standard appender.
  • httest: Fixed LOCK command which could lead to deadlock while
  • SERVER/CLIENT start up, because all three used the same mutex.
  • httest: Removed PROCESS, _PROCESS and the corresponding _PROC_WAIT from
  • httest. This function are useless and do not work as expected.
  • httest: Command _SOCKET is not used any more and is marked depreciated.
  • you can remove this command without change your scripts behavour.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.3.3 (Apr 9, 2013)

  • httest: Fixed segfault on httest -C to print help text of
  • a given command .
  • httest: Fixed the broken log output on various places due the refactoring
  • for the thread safe output implementation in release 2.3.0.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.3.2 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • httest: Add annotation to ignore/skip tests based on defined rules. Useful if tests do only run on certain machine or plattforms or to tag slow tests.
  • httest: Charset translation support.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.3.1 (Mar 1, 2013)

  • httest: Various files were incorrect/incomplete, have to revoke 2.3.0

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.3.0 (Mar 1, 2013)

  • httest: Mutex based logger to avoid scattered lines. Add optional thread id to be able to sort the output of multi threaded tests.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.14 (Jan 31, 2013)

  • httest: Bug fixed wrong length handling in websocket implementation.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.13 (Jan 31, 2013)

  • httest: Adjust logging if calling unresolvable inline functions.
  • httest: Bug fixed buggy _RPS command .
  • httest: Changed _DEBUG command to print always no matter with log level.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.12 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • httest: Distribute a server to a remote host, very useful for integration testing, where a mock server must reside on a specific host in a specific network zone.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.11 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • httest: Bugfix possible coredump in thread tests with SSL.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.10 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • httest: Add a check if _EXPECT are clean or include some unescaped quotes. Please adjust detected missformated _EXPECT.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.9 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • httest: New commands REQUIRE_VERSION and REQUIRE_MODULE.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.8 (Jul 13, 2012)

  • httest: Workaround for cert loading problem if server is threaded.
  • plugins: Syntax highlighting for BBEdit/TextWrangler (Mac), Notepad++ (Win) and gedit/gtkSourceView (Linux).
  • tools: htcolor Perl script to color httest output.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.7 (Jul 3, 2012)

  • httest: Performance improvements around receiving and sending data.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.6 (Jul 3, 2012)

  • httest: New RAMPUP command to control the start fo CLIENTS.
  • httest: refactoring to enable global commands in modules.
  • httest: _LOOP for a given time implemented, i.e. _LOOP 1000 [ms] loops for 1000 ms. Only [ms] implemented yet.
  • httest: Bugfixed log body data.
  • httest: Bugfixed possible coredump with lua blocks.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.5 (Jun 7, 2012)

  • httest: Performance module for distributed client support.
  • httest: Improvements suggested by sonar scan
  • httest: Improved log performance with multi-threaded tests.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.4 (May 31, 2012)

  • httest: Bugfix possible segfault with _SSL:TRACE

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.3 (May 30, 2012)

  • httest: Openssl 1.0.1 support.
  • httest: Bugfixed global command GO which can be used now to join threads.
  • httest: Expect/match/grep TLS extention messages
  • httest: Get server cert also on "_SSL:RENEG_CERT" and do verification of this cert only on "_SSL:RENEG_CERT verify"

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.2 (May 24, 2012)

  • httest: New SSL command to set cipher suite.
  • httest: Expect/match/grep SSL handshake messages.
  • Changes with httest 2.2.1
  • httest: New XPath command to query parts of the HTML document.
  • httest: New variable scope GLOBAL. This variable are shared among all
  • threads.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.1 (Apr 19, 2012)

  • httest: New XPath command to query parts of the HTML document.
  • httest: New variable scope GLOBAL. This variable are shared among all threads.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.2.0 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • httest: Javascript BLOCK support
  • httest: Improve formatings on output
  • httest: Bugfix non working _SEQUENCE command and add a test for verify even the bad case
  • httest: Add _ASSERT "" command for arithmetical assertions, cleaner and better readable than _IF ... _ELSE ... _END constructs.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.18 (Apr 6, 2012)

  • httest: Bugfix possible coredumps at temp file clean up and _EXEC.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.17 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • httest: Read trailing headers after chunked body.
  • httest: Support for variable definition in command line. You can now call httest -Dyour=var or in long from httest --define your=var of course this is possible multiple time.
  • httest: Started with a simple httest debuger. Can set breakpoint with _DBG:BP. On breakpoint a simple command line interpreter helps you investigate your test. There is "cont" to continue test, "quit" for quit test, "list" to geht list around breakpoint, "set =" to set a variable and a "get " to get the value of a variable even environment variables.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.16 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • httest: Use a generic tokenize to argv for most commands. Quoted tokens are threaded as one parameter.
  • httest: Improve _LOOP with an invariant.
  • httest: PATH directiv to define paths for INCLUDE of relative include files.
  • httest: More safestack fixes for openssl stuff.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.15 (Feb 17, 2012)

  • httest: Add more functions for openssl x509 and dh stuff to Lua interface.
  • httest: Bugfix variable substitution. With this bugfix you can emulate array and/or hash variables i.e. $my_array$i or $my_hash$entry. The substitution will resolve $i and $entry first which results in a new variable i.e $my_array0.
  • httest: Bugfix safestack internals which leads to compile problems with openssl.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.14 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Fixed _SSL:RENEG_CERT Again. Without "verify" option _SSL:RENEG_CERT get certificate but still verified it. Now it is possible to get a wrong client cert. It only do fail if there is no client certificate. You can inspect the received client cert with _SSL:GET_CERT_VALUE.
  • htntlm: Fixed scannf call for 64 bit machines. On 64 bit machines uint64_t is no longer %llx but %lx

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.13 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Fixed _SSL:RENEG_CERT Bug. Without "verify" option _SSL:RENEG_CERT did not get certificate with its handshake and that was not the idea.
  • packages: Nicolas Perrenoud will put httest into gentoos overlay system and corrected the ebuild for httest.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.12 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Enhance Lua interface with coder functions like sha1 md5 base64.
  • httest: Simple websocket support based on version 13. Testet against Chrome Browser with websocket version 8 and ws://echo.websocket.org.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.11 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Enhance Lua interface with transport functions.
  • configure: Solve sed problem with some unix derivates.
  • httest: Fixed problems with the _ERROR body and failed SSL connections in there.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.10 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Did not work without Lua is fixed.
  • httest: Fixed shell problems with configure script. Hope this works now, could not reproduce the problem of missing -lm.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.9 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Extend command _RES with a special parameter INGORE_MONITORS, which do activly ignore peeking connections without any data.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.8 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Add setter/getter for log level. Old command still available.
  • httest: Refactoring code and remove duplicated functions in worker.c and
  • tcp_module.c.
  • httest: Add define for openssl libraries without SSLv2 support, thanks to
  • Eva Ramon for reporting this issue.
  • httest: Add version command.
  • httest: Embed an experimental httest interpreter into Lua.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.7 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • configure: Correct --with-lua5.1 option.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.6 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • plugins: Add embedded Lua syntax support.
  • httest: Added experimental Lua module, for full Lua power in httest. This
  • needs liblua5.1 and its development header files.
  • plugins: Maintained the vim plugin and added all new commands.
  • httest: Simplyfied syntax of _LOOP, _IF, _RPS, _BPS and all other local
  • bodies. New you can close a local body with "_END" instead of
  • "_END IF", "_END LOOP", ...

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.1.5 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • httest: Bugfix segfault on solaris.
  • httest: Changed inline commands, they must start with $ and not @ and must have round braces with zero or more space separated arguments.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.12 (Oct 5, 2011)

  • Serious fix: Fixed include problem, wrong recursive include detection.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.11 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • Serious fix: Local variable scrambles line.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.10 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • Write an error if SERVER could not bind or listen.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.8 (May 30, 2011)

  • Removed compile warnings
  • Automatic 100 continue support for requests.
  • Ssl connect and accept command which can be run on a TCP connection. With this command even POP3 with TLS is possible either for server or client. The test pop3_tls.htt demonstrates the useage of this new commands.
  • A global lock for synchronize CLIENT SERVER script parts.
  • A global lock for synchronize CLIENT SERVER script parts.
  • Add httest version

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.7 (May 30, 2011)

  • Changed the - debug option for script debugging and add a
  • debug-system for logging more system details.
  • Bugfix coredump if using _SOCKET before any _RES or _REQ.
  • Add a test for piplining requests.
  • Use the new style safestack from openssl instead of the old
  • stack. Compiles and works now also under openssl 1.0.0.
  • Marked command _PEER_VERIFY as depreciated. Use "_RENEG verify"
  • instead. This command will be removed in the next minor release.
  • Syntax, structure and commands are documented.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.6 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: Serious fix: _IF "" NOT EQUAL still not work.
  • httest: Add local variable support with command _LOCAL +
  • httest: Command list is now sorted, makes it easier to get an overview.
  • httest: Improved the vim colour coding plugin.
  • httest: Tabs before local commands are also allowed.
  • httest: Serious fix: _EXEC echo "foo('bar')" do not work anymore.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.5 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: Simplyfied the pool usage and more fixes to make it stable.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.4 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: Serious fix: _IF "" NOT EQUAL "" is not equal
  • the if condition do not execute its execute its body. This can lead to
  • tests which should fail but do not.
  • ) httest: Fixed memory consumption while reading files or piped _EXEC.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.3 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: Fixed _IGNORE_BODY did not complain if not on or off. If wrong
  • written default is "off". If set to "on " _IGNORE_BODY command do not
  • turn this feature on because of the space after "on".
  • ) httest: Fixed big chunked Data do consume much more memory than the size
  • of the received data. This could lead into a out of memory situation.
  • ) httest: SSL do log more infos on SSL handshake error.
  • ) httest: SSL_OP_NO_TICKET is available in openssl 0.9.8f did add a compile
  • check to avoid compile errors with older openssl versions.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.2 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • ) httest: Fixed sSL bugfixes and refactoring.
  • ) httest: Fixed uninitialized variable in command _CHECK do cause false
  • positive failures.
  • ) httest: Fixed bug session reuse do work now. With older openssl the
  • session id was empty.
  • ) httest: New _IGNORE_BODY command.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.1 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: New _READLINE and _RECV can turn off check match/expects. This
  • check can be done with a separated command _CHECK.
  • ) macros: New simple POP3 implementation.
  • ) httest: Fixed bugfix icap encapsulated reader.

New in HTTP Test Tool 2.0.0 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: New syntax improvements for better DSL ability
  • ) httest: New automatic cookie handling
  • ) httest: New local variables useful for BLOCK
  • ) httest: New bLOCK signatur with parameter and return values
  • ) httest: New add missing _ELSE for _IF command
  • ) httest: New add command _ERROR ... _END ERROR to define an error
  • which must occure with in this body.
  • ) macros: New simple get and post request for Application testing
  • ) macros: New simple SMTP implementation

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.18.0 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: New _RESWAIT combines the _RES and _WAIT command ignoring TCP
  • connections not sending any data.

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.17.0 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • ) httest: New _PROCESS command to run a part of the script with in a
  • separated process and wait with _PROC_WAIT for its termination. Only
  • available on unix systems.
  • ) httest: New global command PROCESS to run the same script in multiple
  • processes, maybe usefull for performance testing. Only available on unix
  • systems.
  • ) httest: New automatic length information support for ICAP Encapsulated
  • header

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.16.0 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • httest: New openssl engine support to use crypto devices.
  • ) httest: New _MATCH do also have "." as namespace, like _EXPECT.
  • ) httest: New _EXPECT do also have "Headers" and "Body" as namespace, like
  • _MATCH.
  • ) httest: New _GREP works like _MATCH but do not fail if no match.
  • ) httest: New global command AUTO_CLOSE to handle automatical Connection
  • header value "close".
  • ) httest: New _AUTO_CLOSE same as global command AUTO_CLOSE.
  • ) httest: New _SSL_CERT_VAL getting values from a cert.

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.15.0 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • New httest: _REQ/SERVER command supports IPV6 (address surrounded in square brackets).
  • Fixed htproxy: does not record data any more.
  • Fixed httest: Help text typo.

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.14.2 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • Fixed httest: Coredump on receiving negative content length header
  • Changes httest: Supports OpenSSL 0.9.8m Legacy TLS renegotiation is still enabled.

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.14.1 (Feb 17, 2010)

  • Fixed httest: _IF condtions with GT/LT/EQ did ignore sign, i.e. -100 > 4

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.14.0 (Feb 17, 2010)

  • New httest: _RPS request per second loop implemented

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.13.3 (Feb 17, 2010)

  • Changed httest: Deal with new openssel 0.9.8l which do remove renegotiation because of a security hole (man in the middle attack). Httest should be still able doing renegotiation, it is a test tool.

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.13.2 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Changed httest: Only ON_ERROR is noisy, FINALLY block is silent
  • Improved httest: System variable __LOG_LEVEL, can be used to make FINALLY block noisy if needed

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.13.1 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: Multithreaded client/server test terminate before all work is done, cause they are all started detached and uncontrolled

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.13.0 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Improved httest: Help text
  • Changed httest: Block FINALLY and ON_ERROR are noisy again
  • Improved httest: __STATUS system variable also available in ON_ERROR block
  • Improved httest: __THREAD system variable for FINALLY and ON_ERROR block
  • New httest: With ON_ERROR block error handling is hand over to user
  • Changed httest: Removed depreciated command _IGNORE_ERRORS

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.12.5 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: Coredump while print debug info on _EXEC process termination

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.12.4 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: Do not url encode "+"
  • Improved httest: if read huge lines, httest will grow exponentaly in memory
  • Fixed httest: Socket eof reader do hold only the last 8KB
  • Improved httest: Read _EXEC output in one peace instead line by line
  • Fixed httest: Reading/writing file from/to pipe do not work properly
  • Fixed httest: Data need to be null terminated for regex even binary data
  • Improved httest: Base64 encoding/decoding support

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.12.3 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Fixed htntlm: Do not work on big endian machine
  • Fixed httest: _URLENC do not understand x
  • Fixed htntlm: No session-key and flags set in type 3 message
  • Improved htntlm: Read given base64 message first before setting options

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.12.2 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Improved httest: Show command specific help
  • Fixed htntlm: Windows do not understand LLU
  • Fixed htntlm: Challenge hexd string used without translate to binary
  • Fixed htntlm: incorrect LM2 and NTLM2 hash calculation
  • New htntlm: NTLM2 signing and sealing scheme

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.12.1 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: If expects/matchs rules exist network error not visible
  • Fixed htntlm: Add missed unicode support (very basic)
  • Improved htntlm: Add lm2 and ntlm2 support
  • Improved httest: Listener can be bound on a IP, scope id and port
  • Fixed httest: Did not validate match and expect scope "VAR"
  • Improved httest: Add command _URLDEC to decode encoded urls

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.12.0 (Aug 10, 2009)

  • New htntlm: Can read/write NTLM messages
  • Fixed htproxy: Crash on windows if read configuration file
  • Fixed hturlext: Crash if called with no arguments

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.11.0 (Jul 28, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: _BPS help text is incomplete
  • Fixed httest: _BPS loops for ever if high bandwidth is defined
  • Fixed httest: _EXEC suppress last char if not terminated with a
  • Improved hturlext: Add a filter to exclude tags and/or attributes
  • Improved httest: Improved usage and version text and add long options
  • Improved htproxy: Improved usage and version text and add long options
  • Improved htremote: Improved usage and version text and add long options
  • Improved Add man pages for all binaries

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.10.2 (Jul 9, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: Deadlock situation seen under window

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.10.1 (Jul 9, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: _OP command did a wrong type cast

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.10.0 (Jul 9, 2009)

  • Fixed httest: Client connect before server listener is up
  • Fixed httest: Temp file leakage on failure
  • New httest: _MATCH scope to match variables directly
  • Fixed httest: Incorrect formated error output
  • Improved httest: _EXEC| and _EXEC< also work for _READLINE and _RECV
  • New htproxy: Setup with a configuration file

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.9.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: If download huge files, httest will grow exponentaly in memory fixed
  • httest: New command to print duration time [ms]
  • httest: New system variables: __STATUS and __START_TIME
  • httest: Do for each command implemented
  • httest: Improved _IF command, can handle now [NOT]MATCH|EQ|LT|GT|LE|GE
  • htpcap: Removed

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.8.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: _BREAK to interrupt a loop
  • httest: Extend _RECV with "Chunked" and "Close"
  • httest: _PRINT_HEX command to print and match hex output
  • httest: Write to file with a loop to be sure we realy write the hole buf
  • httest: BLOCK / _CALL can handle arguments
  • httest: Bugfixed _SOCKSTATE command, handle no peeklen correctly
  • httest: Do handle Connection: close header incorrect on server side
  • httest: Bugfix possible division by zero in the _BPS command
  • httest: Bugfix the strftime command for windows
  • Windows combatibilty patches for httest, htproxy, htremote and htpcap

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.7.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: _RENEG command do not work, nor does _VERIFY_PEER work correctly
  • htproxy: Do not compile on solaris
  • htpcap: Do not compile on solaris

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.7.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Improved release build script
  • httest: Add _READLINE command to read a line terminated with
  • httest: Add _RENEG command. Performs an SSL renegotiation.
  • httest: Add _TUNNEL command. Build up a tunnel to another server.
  • htproxy: Add _EXPECT before last _WAIT works now in all cases
  • htremote: Control interactiv shell commands over TCP/IP for testing purpose

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.6.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Improved testsuite, more checks for release build
  • httest: Bugfix all client/server called the finally block
  • httest: Reformat the output of httest -L

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.6.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Bugfix command _WAIT
  • httest: Add command to spawn a socket reader over a set of _WAIT/_RECV

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.5.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: _STRFTIME can choose between Local and GMT

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.5.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Bugfix, use local time for STRFTIME

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.5.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Embedded file implementation
  • httest: Add new expect scope exec to expect patterns from _EXEC stdout
  • httest: Add new command _STRFTIME to print a number time formated
  • httest: Command _OP operates now with long long instead of int, avoids overflow wiht time calculations
  • httest: Overworked the testsuit, do tests more exactly more detailed

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.4.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Add check if include headers exist with APR_HAVE_XXX for windows build
  • httest: Bugfix cordump in _URLENC

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.4.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Add _URLENC command to encode a string for post requests
  • httest: Add _EXEC< command to filter a receiving http stream (i.e. deflate)
  • httest: Bugfix missing file and line output on error, add a test

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.3.4 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Bugfix bug #2644424 segfault on solaris with the _EXEC command
  • httest: Bugfix bug #2645093 _RECV POLL allways end with the incomplete error

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.3.3 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Bugfix body output, do not skip empty lines

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.3.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Bugfix missing null termination on file EOF
  • httest: Reactivate displaying stdout of EXEC
  • httest: Bugfix wrong chars in variables do not fail

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.3.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Throws incomplete error if content is incomplete.
  • httest: _EXEC did not read last line without a newline

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.3.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Embedded shell scripts
  • httest: Add new match scope exec to cut from _EXEC stdout
  • httest: Bugfix the encapsulated content reader (ICAP)
  • httest: Bugfix a problem if no HTTP headers (HTTP/0.9)

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.2.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Bugfix _ONLY_PRINTABLE

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.2.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • htproxy: Initial session only if requested via shell
  • htproxy: If SSL tunneling via CONNECT method send back "400 Bad Request"
  • httest: Can handle now plain HTML without HTTP headers at all (HTTP/0.9)
  • httest: Add command _ONLY_PRINTABLE to replace non printable chars with a space

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.2.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • httest: Bandwidth restriction command
  • httest: Inherit the enviroment variables to commands called through _EXEC

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.1.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • htproxy: Generate automated httest scripts
  • htproxy: Support for automatical MATCH for cookies
  • htproxy: Replace host and port with customized variable names
  • htproxy: Admin interface over stdin to control the htproxy
  • httest: Bugfix error code for _VERIFY_PEER is now EACCES and not EINVAL
  • httest: Bugfix problem while reading headers with values containing ":"

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.0.3 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Bugfix data loss while using _SOCKSTATE command
  • Bugfix segfault if useing accidentaly the same port for plain and ssl connection
  • Marked _IGNORE_ERR as depricated
  • Bugfix spaces instead of tabs in the generated ebuild

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.0.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Bugfix configure script
  • Bugfix critical problem with sending data

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.0.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Add --with-apr, --with-apr-util, --with-pcre and with-ssl to configure script to specify alternativ libs
  • Add --enable-use-static to force the linker to use archives where ever possible instead of shared libraries
  • Add --enable-full-static to build a static binary

New in HTTP Test Tool 1.0.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Classical configure && make && install mechanisme added
  • Load server certs in SERVER command only if they are there
  • Overworked test suit to fit make check and make distcheck

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.12.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Suppress start line with OK|FAILED option
  • Check if SSL is enabled when calling _CERT
  • Check if SSL port is set

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.12.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Bugfix gentoo package

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.12.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Extend REQ command with a tag to hold multiple connections to same target
  • MATCH improved, ERROR added like EXPECT ERROR
  • Bugfix error text for negated EXPECT clauses
  • Peer certificate verification command _VERIFY_PEER
  • Extend _REQ and _CERT to add a CA certificate

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.11.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Bugfix line reader to get headers
  • Bugfix error trace on failure
  • Bugfix possible coredump on startup if server port is missing

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.11.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Match/Expect regular expression can now be encolsed with any char, escaping support
  • Close listener if server terminates (and all its started servers)

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.11.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Match/Expect also supports single quotes to enclose the regular expression
  • Match with more than one variable assignment
  • _RECV POLL takes now the socket timeout set by _TIMEOUT

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.10.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Add a final block called on exit
  • Set cert/key for ssl used for example to set a alternativ server cert

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.9.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Stability patches

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.9.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Add getter method for workers concurrency number
  • Add math operations: ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV
  • Bugfix warnings appeare under solaris
  • Bugfix problem with global EXEC on failure

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.8.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Better log out
  • Better syntax check
  • LOOP statement with a FOREVER value
  • Add scripts for distributed script calling
  • Add scripts for rampup performance tests
  • Bugfix problem with unknown Connection headers

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.8.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Receive in polling mode
  • Can manage more than one socket per CLIENT/SERVER
  • Every command has now variable resolving
  • Remove base64 encoding/decoding will do it external (later)

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.7.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Overworked the help text
  • Enviroment variable support
  • Receive an amount of bytes, do not expect headers in this case
  • Wait with optional expected bytes length

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.7.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Bugfix variable declaration for solaris compiler (gcc has no problem with that)
  • Bugfix base64 encode/decode did not work
  • DAEMON for supervisor jobs

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.7.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • base64 encode/decode support
  • Sync command to synchronise timeout tests

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.6.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • BLOCK now thread safe
  • Bugfixed problems with the msdos line termination
  • Error message now with correct filename

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.6.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Set log level with in script
  • Load client cert/key in _REQ command
  • Removed _SET_CERT/_SET_KEY
  • Bugfixed SET command

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.6.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Load individual certs and keys for server/client
  • Define simple blocks to call them later
  • Nested LOOP and IF implemented

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.5.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Listen on any host
  • Bugfixes uninitalized variables

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.5.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Add possibility to store time in ms to a variable

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.4.4 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Fixed the help text again
  • Bugfix a segfault in the _IF command
  • Bugfix unknown Connection: keep-alive
  • Reworked the log modes

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.4.3 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Server _UP/_DOWN feature
  • WAIT [] feature

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.4.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Bugfix EXPECT ERROR handling
  • Fixed stability problems

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.4.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Improved EXPECT handling

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.4.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • ICAP support

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.3.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Many fixes around the coredump problematic
  • Imporved pool stragtegy and reduce memory usage

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.2.3 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Pipe received data to a shell command line
  • A simple _LOOP command
  • _IF overworked

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.2.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Improved server performance
  • Improved error reporting
  • Solved broken pipe problem by ignoring SIGPIPE signal
  • Add a possibility to ignore all errors within a child or server
  • Pipe binary data support
  • Add possibility to force an exit and return OK or FAILED
  • Improved header allow, add filter possibilty to force for example HTTP/1.0 client

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.2.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Get the socket state for reconnect
  • Cleaner variable processing
  • Server side SSL support
  • Segfault on a single 0 chunk fixed

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.2.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Refactoring of the global commands
  • Simple shell
  • Cleaner log output

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.1.2 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Allowed header filter (Client only)
  • Pipe _EXEC output into the HTTP stream
  • Use variables even in _EXPECT and _MATCH commands
  • Send data without a CRLF at the end

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.1.1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • If command
  • Shell command execution

New in HTTP Test Tool 0.1.0 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • Can act as client and server
  • Concurrency
  • Looping - do one job many times for performance measurement
  • Enhanced variable support
  • Check response on defined expects
  • Include files
  • SSL support (SSL23, SSL3, SSL2, TLS1)
  • Autocompletion for Content-Length
  • Full chunked encoding data support