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+#!/bin/bash
+# Some web server stress tests
+#
+# Perform a large number of parallel requests, stress testing the web server
+# TODO: some kind of performance metrics
+
+
+TARGET=$1
+
+JSON_TARGETS=('json/state' 'json/info' 'json/si', 'json/palettes' 'json/fxdata' 'settings/s.js?p=2')
+FILE_TARGETS=('' 'iro.js' 'rangetouch.js' 'settings' 'settings/wifi')
+CURL_ARGS="--compressed --parallel --parallel-immediate --parallel-max 2"
+
+# TODO: argument parsing
+
+# Test static file targets
+TARGETS=(${JSON_TARGETS[@]})
+#TARGETS=(${FILE_TARGETS[@]})
+
+# Expand target URLS to full arguments for curl
+FULL_OPTIONS=$(printf "http://${TARGET}/%s -o /dev/null " "${TARGETS[@]}")
+
+#echo ${FULL_OPTIONS}
+time curl ${CURL_ARGS} ${FULL_OPTIONS}