http_load runs multiple http fetches in parallel, to test the throughput of
a web server.
However unlike most such test clients, it runs in a single process, so it
doesn't bog down the client machine. It can be configured to do https
fetches as well.
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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Re-add the MAINTAINER line. In theory, it should not be necessary, but
there appears to be a bug in bsd.*.mk at the moment.
Pointed out by: Johan Pettersson <manlix at demonized to net>
Add a patch to the port which improves the -throttle option by
shrinking the receive socket buffer size to 2K.
The patch has been submitted to http_load's author for possible
inclusion in future versions of http_load.
Update http_load to 20020104 from 20010405; remove patch-idle as it has
been integrated into http_load. Also remove the maintainer, as the port
was quite out of date.
. Upgrade to the latest version. . Change the port versioning scheme from
the seemingly static 1.0 to one based on the date (the way author releases
it). . Enable the SSL (https) support by default (unless NO_OPENSSL is set).
. Use Makefile.bsd instead of patching the software's Makefile -- the new
Makefile.bsd is nearly twice smaller than the old patch-aa. . Add the
author-approved patch-idle, which allows to specify the timeout at run-time
(on command line), instead of at compile-time.
