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Tech dudes!

I'd like to know if you guys know of a (hopefully, free or cheap) tool to measure http server response times. I figure someone somewhere must have written a small freeware tool, or maybe there's some sort of script that I could run.

I'll explain.

At work, we got a bargain (100Mb Eth) Internet connection (2 of them actually). Since we migrated to them, occasionally a user will find a page that loads very slowly over one of them. Today, someone noticed that it could take over a minute to see any response from http://www.wapa.gov. I then checked from my house and over our secondary connection and the page seemed to load fine. To test, I've been telnetting to the server on port 80 and then issuing something like "GET http://www.wapa.gov HTTP/1.1" Issuing that command from several places got me a response in less than a second. Issuing that same command from our router just outside of our firewall meant that I'd have to wait for >1min for the webpage to come back.

It sure would be nice, if there was a tool or script that I could run that would give me times and output on a PC, that I could use for evidence.

I found a perl script named "torture.pl" that will do it, but there's not a Windows version, and I don't have a UNIX box handy.