Bug 27888

Summary: apachebench reports length errors for dynamic pages
Product: Apache httpd-1.3 Reporter: ccikrs1
Component: OtherAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: minor CC: adpeac, florian.ebeling, spatial_terra
Priority: P3    
Version: 1.3.29   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: other   
Attachments: adds variable document length command-line option to apachebench

Description ccikrs1 2004-03-24 02:15:52 UTC 
Dynamic pages (created with Perl/PHP/... on the fly) rarely have the exact same
byte length for the same URL. Apachebench (src/support/ab), however, registers
this as an error during benchmarking and prints a misleading - and very high -
number of "length errors". I wrote a 5-minute patch that implements a "nolength"
command-line switch to suppress these length errors; I will attach it to this
bug report as soon as I can find the proper button. :)
Comment 1 ccikrs1 2004-03-24 02:17:03 UTC 
Created attachment 10937 [details]
adds variable document length command-line option to apachebench
Comment 2 febeling 2007-07-10 02:55:22 UTC 
I think it would make more sense not to count varying length resonses as failures at all. A failure would be 
to have a header Content-Length different from the actual length of the response body.
Comment 3 Christophe JAILLET 2013-06-01 09:00:26 UTC 
*** Bug 42040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Christophe JAILLET 2013-06-01 09:01:36 UTC 
*** Bug 9945 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***