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Install weighttp with Homebrew
Webserver benchmarking tool that supports multithreading. Version 0.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Webserver benchmarking tool that supports multithreading
Project links
Commands and aliases
- weighttp
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Project history and usage
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.
Project history
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.
How it is used
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.
Why package nerds care
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.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:http,server
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
weighttp | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.5
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:weighttp |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.5 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki |
| Repository | https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
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