How to add HTTP proxy for apachebench (ab)

Question

I want to capture http packets that ab is sending or receiving.

So, I add the http_proxy command in the shell:

$ export http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8888

Then I execute the ab command:

$ ab -c 1 -n 1 http://localhost/

Finally my proxy (127.0.0.1:8888) was unable to receive http packets from ab.

Is there a way to allow ab access to http via http_proxy?

Here is my environment: Mac OSX 10.10.3

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ahuigo 02 june 15 at 10:13

1 answer

ahuigo · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-03T03:03:02+0000

If you read about ab help ab -h

, you will find that it supports the proxy option -X

:

-X proxy:port   Proxyserver and port number to use

This option is equivalent to curl

-X

:

-x, --proxy [PROTOCOL://]HOST[:PORT]  Use proxy on given port

And that leads to this command:

ab -c 1 -n 1 -X 127.0.0.1:8888 http://localhost/