West Wind WebSurge

WebSurge is an Http Request and Load Testing tool for Windows

[Rick Strahl @RickStrahl]

@_devJNS For Windows: West Wind WebSurge

Fast, smooth UI, efficient request testing, load testing, offline (or online shared sessions), simple sharable and GIT friendly text formats... and import from Postman.

https://t.co/GP1xquPwhl

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

@timheuer Or... it *could* be cracked in 5 minutes. Lucky guess 😀

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

The signature feature of v3  is Shared Online Sessions, which let you to save Http sessions online and share them with others.

WebSurge has always supported sharing via files or source control but shared sessions allow for quick changes  shared between users.

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

West Wind WebSurge 3.0 has been released. This is a major release with many new features and enhancements.

WebSurge is an interactive Http Request test tool that makes it quick and easy to create and test individual Http requests or load test sessions of requests. 🧵

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

Lots of new stuff in this release:

* Shared Online Session of Http Requests
* Drastically improved Request Throughput
* Improved Request and Test Cancellation
* Previewer for Images, PDF, Media
* Saved Request Viewer
* Arm64 support
* and much more👇

https://t.co/ObpmTeHyI1

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

This update has moved to .NET 9.0 with many performance improvements both in the UI and especially in request throughput resulting in nearly a 30% performance gain.

We've been able to run a local setup ~190k req/sec running on a laptop!👇

https://t.co/unFTv0ao80

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

Did you know WebSurge supports OpenAPI and Swagger imports? Import, then quickly reformat or change requests, test and run set up load tests in minutes.

You can also import from Postman, Fiddler and Visual Studio .http files/folders.

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

@Dave_DotNet @RickStrahl @IDisposable No 'cause it's a pain to do and not very 'scientific' - I have 8.0 and 9.0 of WebSurge that show this difference, but there are some other internal changes that I made to Http handling that likely helped improved performance.

Still credit most of it to framework changes tho! 😀

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

We're making it easier to run and use Command Line tests from within the WebSurge UI with a couple of new menu options.

Command line builds allow for automation, and also tend to produce slightly better throughput in high volume load tests.

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

The Throughput improvements in this version are significant.

The test in the screenshot is on a local laptop with both a .NET Core app and WebSurge running on the same laptop (mid level I9).

Not bad for running on a single laptop machine...

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

WebSurge 3.0.0.34 Preview is out. Lots of improvements in the latest update:

* Many updated User Interface features
* Shared session support
* Image, Pdf, Media previewers
* VS .http file support
* Improved thruput

https://t.co/VVBsQSW4FT

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

Added support for environment variables that can expand in Session Variable values using `%ENV_VAR%` style syntax.

Available in the latest preview release for v3.0.

https://t.co/VVBsQSW4FT

[Rick Strahl @RickStrahl]

Oooh! Nice: VS Code now has syntax coloring for HTTP content and auto-detects it.

Since @websurge1 basically stores raw HTTP traces it auto-detects the HTTP syntax for it too. Sweet!

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

WebSurge now has a number of new content previewers for HTTP request results:

* Images
* PDF Files
* Music and Video
* Office files

Quite useful when you're working on content requests making dev changes while building an service.

https://t.co/VVBsQSW4FT

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

Starting to add support for shared Online Sessions in West Wind WebSurge so you can quickly and easily share a session with another user or multiple machines.

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

Did you know you can paste Curl commands from the clipboard into WebSurge via the "Paste" button in the request editor?

It's a quick and easy way to get requests imported from documentation in addition to .http files, Fiddler traces and raw HTTP traces.

https://t.co/VVBsQSW4FT

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

West Wind WebSurge 2.2.7 is out. Here's what's new:

* New Saved Request Viewer
* Audio & Image File Preview
* Improved Slow Request Display
* Import VS .rest/.http Files
* Improved OpenAPI Imports

https://t.co/VVBsQSW4FT #REST #LoadTesting

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

West Wind WebSurge 2.2.5 is out. This release is a small maintenance release with a few small bug fixes and UI adjustments.

* OpenAPI/Swagger Import
improvements
* Show slow request progress
* Edit request Url and Http verb
in the Request Previewer

https://t.co/VVBsQSW4FT

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

It’s been a while since a major WebSurge release and this update has lots of small usability enhancements. Plus the update to #dotnet 7.0 plus the recent async fixes in the WebView make for a faster, more responsive app.

Check out all that’s new here:

https://t.co/ObpmTeI6xz

[West Wind WebSurge @WebSurge1]

Web Surge 2.2 is out. This is a version rollup release. Here's what's new:

* Support for HTTP/2
* Updated for .NET 7.0
* Improved UI Responsiveness
* Improved Interactive Request Editing
* Copy and Paste Requests
* Easy switching between sites

https://t.co/VVBsQSW4FT