How To Install slowhttptest on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slowhttptest on Fedora 36.
What is slowhttptest
SlowHTTPTest is a highly configurable tool that simulates some Application Layer Denial of Service attacks. It implements most common low-bandwidth Application Layer DoS attacks, such as slow-loris, Slow HTTP POST, Slow Read attack (based on TCP persist timer exploit) by draining concurrent connections pool, as well as Apache Range Header attack by causing very significant memory and CPU usage on the server.
We can use yum or dnf to install slowhttptest on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slowhttptest.
Install slowhttptest on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install slowhttptest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slowhttptest
Install slowhttptest on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install slowhttptest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slowhttptest
How To Uninstall slowhttptest on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the slowhttptest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slowhttptest
slowhttptest Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/slowhttptest
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/96122e67458e7bc7c21eebaa531dc77117903f
/usr/share/doc/slowhttptest
/usr/share/doc/slowhttptest/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/slowhttptest
/usr/share/licenses/slowhttptest/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/slowhttptest/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/slowhttptest.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slowhttptest on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).