can i input txt file with different URLs in it ?

[ghost]

becuase there is caching enabled on my sites and i want to test different urls.,
as if url gets requested twice it gets cached.

so it would be great if we could provide txt file containing list of urls.

thanks

[codesenberg]

Currently, there is no way to specify multiple URLs directly, but you could do something in the spirit of UNIX philosophy, i.e., given urls.txt looks something like:

http://mysite.com/url1
http://mysite.com/url2?with=param
http://mysite.com/url3

you can then run:

cat urls.txt | xargs -P 8 -i bombardier -q "{}"

or, if you need outputs (script.sh):

#!/usr/bin/env bash

while read -r url
do
  (bombardier "$url" > "$url.txt") &
done < "${1:-/dev/stdin}"

and then, cat urls.txt | script.sh.

But maybe, you could try another approach, like, disabling caching on a test server, if it's a feasible option.

[ghost]

Thanks, looking in to it., right now i am on windows., so will work with batch scripting.

[ericsouza]

Hey @codesenberg ! Do you thin there is any change this feature get added?

I'm using bombardier to benchmark a system that pops all elements from a redis list, so after the first call for a single user id all subsequently request for the same user id will return nothing.

If there was a way to tell bombardier to use a sequence, for example go from 1...1000 in a path like: localhost:8080/user/{index}/messages would be amazing. Also if this could be use in headers too would be even better for my application, as I'm using jwt token to identify my users.

drill, a benchmark tool written in rust has something similar to this.

By the way, bombardier its an amazing tool!

[codesenberg]

Thanks for providing an example of how this functionality might be implemented, @ericsouza.
This or similar feature has been requested a couple of times. We use #84 for discussions these days.