Hello,
I am making you a small request . I asked Alex the following question
and he gave the reply that follows,
and since Alex is not online till 5th July...I was wondering if you
could give me a small clarification
(I need the answer urgently and I hope I shall not need to bother you
again with questions....Thanks)
Question > Would it be possible just to use the Polygraph Client
> acting as a browser and communicating with a standard Web Server
> either directly or through a proxy? In other words is it possible to
> use only the Polygraph Client along with let us say an Apache Web
> Server which would be servicing Polygraph client requests?
Alex's Answer:-- It is probably possible (for some workloads and maybe
with minor tweaks)
_provided_ the origin server can be configured to send reasonable "200
OK" replies in response to Polygraph requests. I have never tried
doing
that though.
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THE CLARIFICATION THAT I REQUEST FOR IS :--
Could you please elaborate on this statement in your previous reply
"to send reasonable 200 OK replies"?
Secondly, I want to simulate client requests coming from different
source IP
addresses(when actually they come from a client process running a
single homed host only) Could we simulate client requests from
a Polyclt in such a way so as to make it appear that the different
client requests come from different source IP addresses?
( my idea is to first use ifconfig command to create multiple aliases
for the IP address of the
client's machine and then bind the sockets to different IP addresses
[using the bind() call ] ...I did a similar hack for the wget utility
).If this is not
possible,then I would have to use multiple clients to communicate with
one server.Is that OK?. I request for your comments--since I am not very
comfortable with multithreaded code as the one of Polygraph?
Thanks for your time,
An early reply will be highly appreciated
Aditya
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