This is ApacheBench/Perl, a Perl API for Apache benchmarking and regression testing. This project is meant to be the foundation of a complete benchmarking and regression testing suite for a transaction- processing mod_perl site. We needed to be able to stress our server to its limit while also having a way to verify the HTTP responses for correctness. We also extended the single-URL ab model to a multiple-URL sequence model. ApacheBench was originally based on the Apache 1.3.12 ab code (src/support/ab.c). Since the initial release, I have made efforts to merge in all the newest features of ab. As of version 0.62 it has almost all the features of Apache 1.3.22 ab. However, since the code has so much more/different functionality than "ab" at this point, it's almost pointless to continue merging code. It's an entirely different project now. Please see the POD for complete details. Adi Fairbank adi@adiraj.org November 11, 2010