How to send more than one query string in Apache Bench?

Question

ab -n 1 -c 1 http://localhost:2020/welTo.do?pxtId=3000007937&superDo=jack

I got answer for first query string but i also get

'superDo' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Please help me

TIA

Regards thiru

Answer 1

You probably just need to quote the URL to avoid shell special characters from being interpreted. In this case your & symbol is causing the text to the left to be run in the background while attempting to run superDo as a command.

 ab -n 1 -c 1 'http://localhost:2020/welTo.do?pxtId=3000007937&superDo=jack'

Answer 2

Have you tried the post file? think this should work:

ab -n 1 -c 1 -p postfile.txt -T 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' http://localhost:2020/welTo.do

And then make a flat file named postfile.txt with contents like this:

pxtId=3000007937&superDo=jack

Example adapted from here

Answer 3

There are two workarounds for this:

1. You can use double quote to surround the url:

ab -n 1 -c 1 "http://localhost:2020/welTo.do?pxtId=3000007937&superDo=jack"

2. Escape "&" with a backslash:

ab -n 1 -c 1 http://localhost:2020/welTo.do?pxtId=3000007937\&superDo=jack