# weighttp mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für weighttp in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:weighttp
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install weighttp
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:weighttp
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.5
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Webserver benchmarking tool that supports multithreading
- **Homepage:** <https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- weighttp (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.5
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

weighttp is a small C command-line tool for benchmarking web servers. The Lighttpd-hosted project describes it as a lightweight benchmarker designed to be fast and easy to use, and the public repository positions the current code as a rewrite of the earlier weighttp by Thomas Porzelt.

### Projektgeschichte

The current public repository was created on GitHub in November 2011 as a collaboration mirror while pointing back to the Lighttpd infrastructure as the main home. Its README preserves the lineage explicitly: the rewrite is based on Thomas Porzelt's original weighttp and keeps the project in the Lighttpd orbit rather than presenting it as a general-purpose load-testing framework.

The repository has stayed intentionally small. Its tags run from early 0.x releases through weighttp-0.5, and the README's build section is essentially just autotools or Meson followed by the single `weighttp` executable. That matches the tool's niche: a compact benchmark program rather than a suite.

### Wie es verwendet wird

weighttp is used from the shell to generate concurrent HTTP requests against a URL and measure server behavior. In package-nerd terms it sits near older tools such as ApacheBench and newer evented benchmarkers such as wrk, but its distinguishing idea is being a tiny multithreaded benchmarker associated with the Lighttpd performance-testing ecosystem.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Its significance is narrow but real: weighttp is one of those small benchmarking binaries that distribution users install when they want a quick repeatable web-server stress test without adopting a larger load-testing stack.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/lighttpd/weighttp>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/lighttpd/weighttp/tags?per_page=20>
- <https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lighttpd/weighttp/master/README>
- <https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/weighttp.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/weighttp.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph