I already tried that. Didn't work. Maybe it's another thing. With wget, i does 3 request just to get one page. The first two return 401 and only the third is giving a 200. Maybe ab, for some reason, isn't trying enough times to authenticate. In AB with verbose active, I can see it only tries one time. Regards, Joel -----Original Message----- From: Graeme Fowler [mailto:graeme@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: quarta-feira, 12 de Dezembro de 2007 13:51 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Help with AB and authentication On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:30 +0000, Joel Carlos Martinho Alexandre (DSI) wrote: > I'm trying to use AB to benchmark a site within a IIS, but I'm having > problems with authentication. > > I'm currently using > > ab2 -A domain\user:password url Try ab2 -A domain\\user:password url The command line thinks you're escaping the first character of the username since backslashed are used as escape markers. Pass a pair, and the first backslash escapes the second one, thus passing it to the application. Alternatively, put the whole thing in single quotes: 'domain\user:password' and see if ab takes that. Graeme --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx