Talking Drupal #088 - Load Testing

http://www.talkingdrupal.com/088


Topics


 


Resources


Apache Bench - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApacheBench

Blitz.io - https://www.blitz.io/

Blazemeter - http://blazemeter.com/



Modules


Blazemeter Drupal module -
https://www.drupal.org/project/blazemeter



Module of the Week


Captcha After - www.drupal.org/project/captcha_after


Show CAPTCHA protection on selected forms after specified number
of unsuccessful form submit attempts has been made.


CAPTCHA After module brings solution to the problem of evaluating
security challenges (commonly known as CAPTCHAs) without
decreasing the usability of your site. It allows human visitors
to fill the web form with input data without solving the CAPTCHA
challenge. If however malicious software (or user) is to be
suspected because the total number of submitted forms (correct or
wrong submits), the CAPTCHA will be activated.


Typical use case is user login page where you can set that
CAPTCHA protection should be shown after 3 unsuccessful login
attempts. Then on first 3 attempts guest user will not be
challenged with CAPTCHA protection, but on fourth login attempt
guest user will also need to solve CAPTCHA challenge in order to
login.


The administrator of the site has multiple options when it comes
to fine tuning of the “suspicious” situation: you can control
submit threshold (number of wrong submissions per user), flooding
threshold (number of correct submissions per machine IP) and
global flooding threshold.


CAPTCHA After can also be enabled only for selected CAPTCHA
protected forms.


 


Host


Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross


John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi


Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan


Guest


Rob Aubin - www.oomphinc.com @ra8