What is “wbox” Package?

HTTP testing tool and configuration-less HTTP server
For more details: http://hping.org/wbox/

Installation

• Open Terminal by pressing command+space then type terminal and hit Enter key.
• Install homebrew first.

  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

• Install wbox.

  brew install wbox

Now, use wbox! It can be used for the following scenarios:

• Benchmarking how much time it takes to generate content for your web application.
• Web server and web application stressing.
• Testing virtual domains configuration without the need to alter your local resolver.
• Check if your redirects are working correctly emitting the right HTTP code.
• Test if the HTTP compression is working and if it is actually serving pages faster.
• Use it as a configuration-less HTTP server to share files! (see the server mode documentation at the end of the Wbox tutorial in this page, but it’s as simple as % wbox servermode webroot /tmp)