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Tools To Use Instead of curl

TRODD NEWCOL wget NEWCOL wget downloads a site recursively, using FTP or HTTP TREND TREVEN NEWCOL Elza NEWCOL Tools for HTTP automation and building custom HTTP UserAgents. TREND TRODD NEWCOL Grinder NEWCOL a simple, pure Java load-testing framework TREND TREVEN NEWCOL Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) NEWCOL Part of Windows 2000 Resource Kit Runs simulated workloads against your web server, using a standard set of web-based test files from a distributed collection of client PC's. [Documentation is contained in a file called IISTools.chm after installation] TREND TRODD NEWCOL Web Application Stress Tool NEWCOL (WAST used to be called homer) Realistically simulates multiple browsers requesting pages from a Web site. You can use this tool to gather performance and stability information about your Web application. More info. TREND TREVEN NEWCOL Netwox NEWCOL network testing toolbox - contains over 150 tools TREND TRODD NEWCOL GNU netcat or ncat NEWCOL Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. TREND TREVEN NEWCOL OpenSTA NEWCOL OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture which can perform scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy load tests with performance measurements from Win32 platforms. TREND
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Tools That Help You use curl

TRODD NEWCOL LiveHTTPHeaders NEWCOL An extremely useful tool that allows you to track ALL incoming and outgoin HTTP headers when you're using Mozilla, Firefox or Netscape. TREND TREVEN NEWCOL Wireshark NEWCOL Network analyzer deluxe. When "curl --trace" and LiveHTTPHeaders just ain't enough. TREND TRODD NEWCOL tcpdump NEWCOL The original network analyzer. Powerful and command-line driven. TREND TREVEN NEWCOL ssldump NEWCOL an SSLv3/TLS network protocol analyzer TREND TRODD NEWCOL ieHTTPHeaders NEWCOL An "explorer bar" for Internet Explorer that will show you the HTTP Headers IE are sending and receiving. Similar to LiveHTTPHeaders but for Internet Explorer. TREND TREVEN NEWCOL HTTPLook NEWCOL An "HTTP sniffer" for Windows 95/98/Me/NT4(SP3)/2000/XP TREND
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