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 early 2000 as a way to test the capacity of simultaneous users connected to a web application and was not public tool. In 2010 the tool was created by ProactiveRISK to educate the OWASP Community about the Denial of Service conditions that can exist with Layer7

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
 * GITHUB

Email List
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News and Events

 * [12 June 2015] Page Updated New Template

In Print
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