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Main Features :
- HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 capable
- Supports IPv6
- Multithreaded Support
- Supports generating stress from multiple machines
- Extensible through C plug-in DLLs
- Supports Performance Counter integration
- Measures throughput and response time
- Supports SSL requests
- NTLM Authentication request support
- Easily supports testing thousand of concurrent users
Benefits
- Very light weight (low hardware requirements)
- Extensible to handle any aspect of the HTTP request or response
- Allows remote collection of perfmon data and registry
Requirements
WCat 6.2 supports the following Operating Systems:
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server Code-named "Longhorn"";
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