Friday, April 24, 2009

DoSHTTP for doing Denial of Service Testing for a website

DoSHTTP is an easy to use and powerful HTTP Flood Denial of Service (DoS) Testing Tool for Windows. DoSHTTP includes URL Verification, HTTP Redirection and performance monitoring. DoSHTTP uses multiple asynchronous sockets to perform an effective HTTP Flood. DoSHTTP can be used simultaneously on multiple clients to emulate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. DoSHTTP can help IT Professionals test web server performance and evaluate protection software. DoS-HTTP was developed by certified IT Security and Software Development professionals.

Free download from Shareware Connection - DoSHTTP is an easy to use and powerful HTTP Flood Denial of Service (DoS) Testing Tool. DoSHTTP uses multiple asynchronous sockets to perform an effective HTTP Flood and includes URL Verification, HTTP Redirection and performance monitoring.

I was looking for a tool which could help me in testing Service denial cases for an exe which interacts with different web-servers but this tools is only for a particular URL which does not solve my purpose...




I did a basic thing using this tool. I provided www.Google.com as URL and asked to run the test using Mozilla4. I liked one thing about the tool that you need not to install different versions of Browsers to test this. Tool has implicit capability of simulating different browser behavior.

Second image shows the results where is says that 34% requests per second are responded by server when 4950 requests are made using Mozailla4.

I don't have much knowledge about this tool so explore more about this....

Here are few features of DoSHTTP but I don't have much details about these:

Features:

* Easy to use and powerful HTTP Flood Denial of Service (DoS) Testing Tool
* Uses multiple asynchronous sockets to perform an effective HTTP Flood
* Allows multiple clients to emulate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
* Allows target port designation within the URL [http://host:port/]
* Supports HTTP Redirection for automatic page redirection (optional)
* Includes URL Verification that displays the response header and document
* Includes Performance Monitoring and Enhanced Reporting
* Allows customized User Agent header fields
* Allows user defined Socket and Request settings
* Supports numeric addressing for Target URLs
* Includes a comprehensive User Guide
* Clear Target URLs and Reset All options

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