From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0CE20401; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:28:58 +0000 From: Eric Wong To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Cc: http_spew-public@bogomips.org Subject: [ANN] http_spew 0.7.0 - LAN-only HTTP spam^H^H^H^Hclient for Ruby Message-ID: <20170613-http_spew-0.7.0-released@bogomips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: This is not a new project, it's been public on RubyGems.org for over 6 years, now, but I've been hesitant to announce it on ruby-talk to a wider audience because... well, it's a bit nuts: from the README and https://bogomips.org/http_spew/ --- = HTTP Spew - LAN-only HTTP spam^H^H^H^Hclient for Ruby Do not use HTTP Spew for connecting to servers outside of your LAN. Do not use HTTP Spew without the permission of your server admins. Use HTTP Spew if you wish you could kinda multicast with HTTP... == Problems * No support for bidirectional HTTP streaming * No support for "Expect: 100-continue" headers/responses * No support for DNS resolution (WONTFIX, ever) * No support for HTTPS * No support for keepalive (yet?) * Not remotely RFC-compliant * Messes up analytics/reporting on servers * Resets server connections * May get you banned from the Internet! == Still Interested? HTTP Spew lets you fire off identical (or similar) requests to multiple HTTP servers and wait for any number (or all) of them to complete or for a timeout to expire. HTTP Spew may be useful for implementing reverse proxy servers if you 1) can't decide on a load balancing strategy for them 2) have much more hardware than you actually use It's also completely untested and unused anywhere! == Hacking You can get the latest source via git from the following locations: git://bogomips.org/http_spew.git git://repo.or.cz/http_spew.git (mirror) You may browse the code from the web and download the latest snapshot tarballs here: * https://bogomips.org/http_spew.git * http://repo.or.cz/w/http_spew.git (gitweb) Inline patches (from "git format-patch") to the mailing list are preferred because they allow code review and comments in the reply to the patch. We will adhere to mostly the same conventions for patch submissions as git itself. See the Documentation/SubmittingPatches document distributed with git on on patch submission guidelines to follow. Just don't email the git mailing list or maintainer with http_spew patches. == Contact All feedback (bug reports, user/development discussion, patches, pull requests) go to the mailing list: mailto:http_spew-public@bogomips.org Mailing list archives may be viewed and downloaded here: https://bogomips.org/http_spew-public/