"Pounder" is a quick and dirty application for beating the heck out of a WWW server. It simulates multiple simultaneous users attempting to access a single WWW server. It is strongly suggested that you run Pounder on a Mac by itself and assault a server on another machine. It's not a well-tested application and it isn't supported, so don't complain if it hurls all over your screen.
To use the program, simply make the appropriate changes to the config file and run it. The format of the config file is as follows:
line 1: IP address of the server victim
line 2: the max time between requests for each simulated "client". This number places an upper bounds on a random number that is generated for each client for each request. This number represents the number of seconds the "client" will wait after completing a request before it asks for something else.
line3: the maximum number of simulated clients. I believe the max for this value is 20.
The rest of the file represents the text of requests that will be sent by "clients" to the server. This text is the exact text that would be sent from a WWW client to a WWW server. Each request is terminated by a "@" on a line by itself, allowing multi-line requests to be constructed. You'll need to adjust the requests to match the files that your server actually has on it.
