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mister_paul_717
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Sep 30, 2009

Load Testing - any advice?

We're planning on doing some load testing against our site with ASM, and want a certain percentage of the requests to be "attacks". I'm wondering if there are specific types of attacks that are bette...
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hoolio
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Oct 01, 2009
Hi Paul,

 

 

It would be ideal to mimic live traffic in the load testing. Your live traffic would probably have a variety of violations. Depending on what type of load testing kit you have, you might try recording a real browser session where you manually exercise the web application submitting some data which triggers violations.

 

 

Aaron