Swamp

Foreword - "swamp" is a SSL/TLS benchmarking tool I wrote some time ago. It was originally meant to be an HTTPS version of the "Apache Bench" tool that comes with Apache (the "ab" utility), because "ab" only supported unencrypted HTTP benchmarking, and internally it was not at well suited to adding HTTPS support. However, the desire for a similar look-and-feel to "ab" waned, and the desire to put cool features in took a hold, so "swamp" is what resulted.

"swamp" is now developed and maintained as part of the distcache project, where it has been renamed to "sslswamp". Apart from improved networking code and configuration support, this also makes it possible to release swamp in RPM form. The versions available here on my web-site are for historical interest only, please migrate to using the version from the distcache project.

Current version: sslswamp-1.4.5 (part of distcache-1.4.5)

(for older, read "obsolete", versions - see the bottom of this page)

Old news

This part of my site is no longer maintained

please go to the distcache site for the latest information on sslswamp.

Development team

• Geoff Thorpe - swamp(at)geoffthorpe.crop-this.net
• Steve Robb - steverobb(at)ukgateway.crop-this.net

Requirements

• A unix-like system and compiler suite that is supported by automake/autoconf (cygwin should probably work OK on win32).
• OpenSSL libraries and headers. For RPM systems this would include the "openssl-***-dev***.rpm" package. For non-RPM systems (or users using their own OpenSSL build), this requires either an installed OpenSSL build ("make install") or a fully-built source tree.
• For further details - consult the 'INSTALL' document in the swamp package.

Obsolete versions of swamp: swamp-1.1.0, swamp-1.0.3

Other resources/links

• OpenSSL - the open source cryptographic toolkit that swamp is built with.
• Apache - the open source webserver of choice. This is the most commonly used webserver on the planet, and through either of the following modules, provides a convenient way to run a full-featured robust secure web server.
• mod_ssl - the most commonly used SSL/TLS module for Apache - this enables Apache to serve "secure" pages (in other words, provides "https" support).
• Apache-SSL - another SSL/TLS module for Apache. Can be used instead of mod_ssl but not with it.