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+NAME
+    httpbench - Simple HTTP benchmarking tool
+
+SYNOPSIS
+    httpbench -u <url or urllist.txt> -d sec -c concurrent -r rps [-t ms]
+    [-e expected]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+    HTTP Bench is a small program for Linux, UNIX and a like written in C
+    which can be used to benchmark HTTP servers. For more infos please
+    consult the project website.
+
+  Arguments
+   Mandatory
+    "-u url or urllist.txt"
+                An URL to benchmark if argument begins with http:// or
+                https:// or a path to a text file containing a list of all
+                HTTP-URLs to request during a benchmark. Each line should
+                start with http:// or https://.
+
+    "-d seconds"
+                Duration of the benchmark in seconds. E.g. 300 for a five
+                minutes benchmark.
+
+    "-c concurrent"
+                Number of cuncurrent threads used by the benchmark.
+
+    "-r rps"    Requests per second wanted for the benchmark.
+
+   Optional
+    "-t timeoutms"
+                Timeout in milliseconds for each request. This timeout will
+                actually not interrupt any requests. It's there just for
+                statistical reasons. E.g. how many requests take longer than
+                x milliseconds?
+
+    "-e expectedresponsestr"
+                The expected response of a request. E.g. all requests should
+                contain HTML in its reponse. All responses not matching are
+                counted and reported.
+
+  EXAMPLES
+    "httpbench -u mylist.txt -d 60 -c 10 -r 1000"
+                Iterates over each url in mylist.txt with 10 cuncurrent
+                threads for 60 seconds and tries to reach 1000 requests per
+                second. Each curl failure will be reported at the end of the
+                test (total count and total %).
+
+    "httpbench -u http://www.example.com -d 300 -c 1000 -r 10000 -t 20 -e
+    "Hello World""
+                Benchmarks the single URL http://www.example.com with 1000
+                cuncurrent threads for 5 minutes and tries to reach 10000
+                requests per second. Each request which takes longer than 20
+                milliseconds will be reported at the end of the test (total
+                count and total %) and each request which does not contain
+                "Hello World" in its response string will also be reported
+                (total count and total %). The curl errors will also be
+                reported.
+
+LICENSE
+    See package description or project website.
+
+AUTHOR
+    Paul Buetow - <http://httpbench.buetow.org>
+