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goldeneye(1) HTTP DoS test tool goldeneye(1)

NAME

goldeneye - HTTP DoS test tool

SYNOPSIS

goldeneye <URL> [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

GoldenEye is a HTTP DoS Test Tool. This tool can be used to test if a site is susceptible to Deny of Service (DoS) attacks. Is possible to open several parallel connections against a URL to check if the web server can be compromised.

The program tests the security in networks and uses 'HTTP Keep Alive + NoCache' as attack vector.

OPTIONS

-u, --useragents
File with user-agents to use. Default: randomly generated. On Debian systems, there are lists of user-agents at /usr/share/goldeneye/useragents/ directory.
-w, --workers
Number of concurrent workers. Default: 10.
-s, --sockets
Number of concurrent sockets. Default: 500.
-m, --method
HTTP method to use. Values: 'get', 'post' and 'random'. Default: get.
-d, --debug
Enable debug mode [more verbose output].
-h, --help
Show this help.

NOTES

GoldenEye can create several concurrent workers and it can use all local resources. Choose good parameters to avoid local problems.

AUTHOR

GoldenEye was written by Jan Seidl <jseidl@wroot.org>.

This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Mar 2016 GOLDENEYE 1.2.0