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Loader.io - Simple Cloud-based Load Testing

#1

Post by cwhitaker01 » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 9:41 PM UTC

Loader.io - Simple Cloud-based Load Testing
loader.io

Re: Loader.io - Simple Cloud-based Load Testing

#2

Post by stormbrew » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 9:44 PM UTC

This seems.. problematic. They don't do anything to verify you own the site in question. What happens when someone aims this at facebook.com?

Re: Loader.io - Simple Cloud-based Load Testing

#3

Post by pud » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

stormbrew wrote: post #2

This seems.. problematic. They don't do anything to verify you own the site in question. What happens when someone aims this at facebook.com?

When you try to run a test, they do in fact make you put a file on your site to prove it's yours.

Re: Loader.io - Simple Cloud-based Load Testing

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Post by stormbrew » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 12:07 AM UTC

pud wrote: post #3

stormbrew wrote: post #2

This seems.. problematic. They don't do anything to verify you own the site in question. What happens when someone aims this at facebook.com?

When you try to run a test, they do in fact make you put a file on your site to prove it's yours.

Ah. I didn't get that far. I expected some instructions before hitting go.

I still see potential problems, though, with things like third party hosting that may not be so happy about you doing this even though they don't explicitly disallow it in their TOS. I can make a github pages site have the specified url, for example.