var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) is a lightweight HTTP load generation tool primarily designed to measure the performance of a web server within a controlled environment. WCAT can simulate thousands of concurrent users making requests to a single web site or multiple web sites. The WCAT engine uses a simple script to define the set of HTTP requests to be played back to the web server. Extensibility is provided through plug-in DLLs and a standard, simple API.

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""; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }