Send a lot of http(s) requests in testing purpose

curload.py

import sys
import argparse
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import multiprocessing

def curl(_):
    p = Popen(['curl', '-vkL', args.url], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
    print "+"
    if args.quiet and p.returncode != 0:
        return
    print stderr


def parse_args():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('-u', '--url', type=str)
    parser.add_argument('-t', '--threads', type=int, default=8)
    parser.add_argument('-c', '--count', type=int, default=1000)
    parser.add_argument('-q', '--quiet', action='store_true', default=False)
    return parser.parse_args()

def main():
    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(args.threads)
    pool.map(curl, range(args.count))
    pool.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = parse_args()
    main()