Recently, there has been a discussion Between myself and another individual as to the performance of particular web servers under certain situations. Being that web server testing frameworks have different ways of measuring how long a 'request' takes, I thought I would take the guesswork out of it and measure everything explicitly.
There are GeneRally 5 portions to a web request: 1. create the connection 2. start sending the request 3. finish sending the request 4. start recieving the response 5. finish reading the response
This recipe measures the amount of time to perform each portion of a request to a single file many times, and prints the results in a somewhat reasonable fashion.
