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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
history
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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 8 platform targets.
- Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.
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 | cli | global executable |
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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 generated2026-07-08
manager version0.5
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedweighttp-0.5
https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:weighttp |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.5 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/weighttp |
| Homepage | https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki |
| Repository | https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp |
| Upstream docs | https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki |
| License | MIT |
| Source archive | https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp/archive/refs/tags/weighttp-0.5.tar.gz |
| Dependencies | libev |
| Build dependencies | meson, ninja, pkgconf |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | weighttp |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment