1 The htt provides a large variety of HTTP-related functionality, useful for
2 implementing all kinds of HTTP-based tests:
4 - Advanced HTTP protocol handling, including ne-grained timeout handling,
5 request and response validation
6 - Simulating clients and servers, including startup and shutdown of server
7 daemons. This allows to create mock-ups of back-end systems in more complex
8 test situations, for example when the tested application needs to interact
9 with a 3rd-party back-end system which is not available in the testing
11 - Execution of external commandline tools, using their output as request
12 or response data, or for validation purposes.
13 - Copying stream data (e.g. from a response) and re-using it in variables.