vex is a small PHP app that sends some load to a web application

Installation

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.

Or require globally using Composer with composer global require vamsiikrishna/vex. This will automatically add the vex binary to your path.

Usage

Usage:
vex [options] [--] <url> [<n>] [<c>]

Arguments:

  url                      The URL to which the requests should be sent
  n                        Number of requests to be made [default: 1]
  c                        Concurrency [default: 1]

Options:

  -m, --method[=METHOD]    HTTP Method [default: "GET"]
  -H, --headers[=HEADERS]  Headers (multiple values allowed)
  -d, --body[=BODY]        Request body

Example:

• 1000 Get requests with 10 concurrency to http://127.0.0.1:8000

./vex.phar vex http://127.0.0.1:8000 1000 10

• 1000 POST requests with 10 concurrency to http://127.0.0.1:8000 with custom headers and body

./vex.phar vex http://127.0.0.1:8000 1000 10 \
-m "POST" \
-H "accept:application/json, text/plain, */*" \
-H "accept-language:en-IN,en-GB;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4" \
-d "{\"message\": \"Hello world! Your JustAPIs instance is running correctly.\"}"