This is some test-automation to be used with CS 260's Assignment 3: the Http Proxy assignment.
Originally all of this was written using .BAT but increasingly, getting that to work is becoming an issue. Then we tried PowerShell, and that was worse!
This attempt is built on .NET 8.0 and packages into a self-contained EXE, which should run on any Windows machine without needing to install .NET.
Go to the Releases and find the latest release that matches your architecture and platform. Download the ZIP and extract it to a directory of your choice.
You can test that it's working by opening a PowerShell terminal and running:
./FakeHttpClient.Net.exe --helpIf you see something other than the help screen, then you should follow up with the instructor and/or TAs.
First, start your CS260_Assignment3 program, either in the Visual Studio Debugger or
from the command line. Make sure that your program is listening on port 8888.
(If for some reason you need to change the port, you can do so by passing the -Port argument,
see the help screen for details.)
Once that's running, you can execute the FakeHttpClient to test your proxy server. Some .BAT files have been provided to make testing a little easier:
Requests a single URL and prints the results to the console. You should see the test start, HTML scroll by the console, ending about 5 seconds later.
Requests a single URL (www.google.com) and prints the results. This will let you test URLs that return larger amounts of data -- are you handling multiple chunks of data correctly?
This is the http://cs260.meacnat.com/delay URL, outputting the results to a file.
This is the big test -- running this configuration will execute many HTTP requests concurrently. If the test is successful, you should see a number of files created in the same directory as FakeHttpClient.exe, and you should note the timing of each request -- they should be approximately the same amount of time (give or take a second) -- if the first takes 5 seconds, the 2nd takes 10 seconds, the 3rd takes 15 seconds, etc., then you have a problem!
On success, there should be a number of "(test-name)-(number).txt" files, depending on how many URLs you were requesting concurrently.
You should see something like this, although your specific output will be different:
./FakeHttpClient.exe --url http://cs260.meancat.com/delay --interactive trueBegin - 6/19/2025 5:55:05PM
Begin Test : http://cs260.meancat.com/delay 6/19/2025 5:55:05PM
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:55:05 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: Express
Cache-Control: no-cache
48c
<!-- Padding to encourage flush --> <br><html><head><title>DigiPen CS 260 Delayed Response Test</title></head><body><h2>Here we go!</h2>1<br>
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50<br><h2>All done!</h2></body></html>
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End Test: Total time for (http://cs260.meancat.com/delay): 5116ms. Result: pass!
End - 6/19/2025 5:55:10 (elapsed: 5122 ms)