OWASP HTTP Post Tool

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Introduction
OWASP Switchblade is a denial of service tool used for testing the availability, performance and capacity planning of a web application to be proactive about this type of risk condition

Description
The projected started in 2000 as a way to test the capacity of simultaneous users connected to a web application.

Licensing
OWASP Switchblade is free to use. It is licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license], so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.


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What is Switchblade
OWASP Switchblade provides (3) different types of denial of service conditions that can be tested from a single machine


 * SSL Half Connect
 * HTTP Post Attack
 * Slowloris

Presentation
Link to presentation

Project Leader
Tom Brennan

Related Projects
OWASP Testing Guide

Openhub

 * OWASP Project Ohloh


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Quick Download

 * Windows Installer page/download
 * GITHUB

Email List
N/A

News and Events

 * [12 June 2015] Page Updated New Template

In Print
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Switchblade
Switchblade is a tool used to conduct load testing on a web application running IIS or Apache sponsored by ProactiveRISK

Introduction
The OWASP Testing Guide v3 (Section 4.9) Denial of Service Testing outlines numerous areas of Denial of Service. This QA tool was created to allow you to test your web applications to test availability concerns from Layer7 DoS HTTP GET and HTTP POST denial of service attacks and SSL half connects

Description
This tool is used to test production load of systems to reach capacity.

It should NOT be used from a coffee shop to cause denial of service conditions to websites that you do not own.

Licensing
Switchblade is free to use. It is licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license], so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.


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What Switchblade V4.x
Switchblade provides QA testing for Layer7 Denial of Service


 * SSL Half Connect
 * HTTP Slow Post
 * HTTP Slowloris

Presentation

 * Slides - OWASP V3.0 Slides Click Here

Project Leader
[mailto:tomb@proactiverisk.com Tom Brennan]

Ohloh

 * https://www.ohloh.net/p/owasp-dos-http-post


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Quick Download

 * Download Version 4.1
 * GITHUB

Email List
N/A

21-Aug-2014 Version 4.0 Released

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=FAQs=


 * Q1 Can I get in trouble for using this tool against a website I am not authorized to test?
 * A1 Yes. Don't create problems, create solutions.


 * Q2 Can I use this tool to test for free?
 * A2 The tool is released open-source to the community.

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Volunteers
Switchblade is developed by ProactiveRISK team. The primary contributors to date have been:


 * Tom Brennan
 * Sam Jensen
 * Ryan Barnett

= Road Map and Getting Involved = Involvement in the development and promotion of the Switchblade is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute. Some of the ways you can help:
 * Demonstrate the tools ability to effect availability of any system using SSL, HTTP Post etc.

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