Sample LocustIO testing script with basic auth

locust_basic_auth_test.py

'''
  Simple LocustIO testing script with basic auth
'''
import random, gzip, StringIO, threading, urllib2, re, getpass
from locust import HttpLocust, TaskSet, task, web
from random import randint
from urlparse import urlparse

#resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (999999, 999999))
USER_AGENTS = [
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03D) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19 (LocustIO)",
    "Android 4.0.3;AppleWebKit/534.30;Build/IML74K;GT-I9220 Build/IML74K (LocustIO)",
    "KWC-S4000/ UP.Browser/7.2.6.1.794 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (LocustIO)",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) (LocustIO)",
    "Googlebot-Image/1.0 (LocustIO)",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (LocustIO)",
    "Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6.8; U; fr) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.52 (LocustIO)",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.152 Safari/537.36",
]


PW = getpass.getpass(' Enter Password:')

class UserBehavior(TaskSet):

    def on_start(self):
        """ on_start is called when a Locust start before any task is scheduled """
        self.headers = {"User-Agent":USER_AGENTS[random.randint(0,len(USER_AGENTS)-1)]}
        self.client.headers = self.headers

    # 100 Max
    @task(100)
    def action_landing_page(self):
        self.client.get("/", auth=("username", PW))



class WebsiteUser(HttpLocust):

    host="https://www.example.com"
    task_set = UserBehavior
    min_wait=1000 
    max_wait=3000

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