getURL

Instruction

This is a GO program that makes a request to the URL that user provided using sockets directly instead of a library that handles the HTTP/HTTPS request.

build

To create a binary executable file, use the following command line:

go build getURL.go

run

The above command will create a binary executable file getURL in the current directory, then you can execute it the following command line:

./getURL --url <your_url>

Or use go run getURL.go without building it.

CLI tool

Make a request to your link

./getURL --url <URL>

It takes an required argument that is a full URL following --url. It will make an HTTP/HTTPS request to URL and print the response directly to the console. If no protocal specified, by default, it will send an HTTPS request.

Measure how fast it is

./getURL --url <URL> --profile <N>

--profile takes a positive integer N. It will make N requests to the provided URL, time the requests and then print the following results:

• The number of requests
• The fastest time
• The slowest time
• The mean & median times
• The percentage of requests that succeeded
• Any error codes returned that weren't a success
• The size in bytes of the smallest response
• The size in bytes of the largest response

help

./getURL --help

It allows a --help parameter that describes how to use it.

Sample result

Here are some screenshots of this tool run against different websites.