goldeneye(1)

💖 goldeneye(1) — the HTTP DoS test tool that's lowkey iconic 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to goldeneye, aka section 1 of the manual, aka the girl who stress-tests your web server and does NOT apologize for it. she's an HTTP DoS test tool and she's here to serve. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

goldeneye — HTTP DoS test tool 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

goldeneye <URL> [OPTIONS]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. give her a URL, sprinkle some options on top, and she GOES. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so GoldenEye is a HTTP DoS Test Tool, periodt. 🫶 what that means is: you can use this thing to test whether a site is susceptible to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. and yes, it is absolutely possible to open several parallel connections against a URL to check if the web server can be compromised. no cap.

the program tests the security in networks and uses 'HTTP Keep Alive + NoCache' as its attack vector. that's the whole recipe. that's the whole fit. 👑

bestie this is a security testing tool, so pls only point her at stuff you're actually allowed to point her at, mwah 💋

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -u, --useragents — a file with user-agents to use. default? randomly generated, she's mysterious like that. ✨ on Debian systems, there are lists of user-agents chilling at the /usr/share/goldeneye/useragents/ directory, so go shop there if you want.
• -w, --workers — number of concurrent workers. default: 10. ten little icons working overtime 🧚
• -s, --sockets — number of concurrent sockets. default: 500. yes fr, five hundred. 💀
• -m, --method — HTTP method to use. values: 'get', 'post' and 'random'. default: get. pick your fighter 💅
• -d, --debug — enable debug mode, aka [more verbose output]. she will Not shut up and honestly? we love that for her. 🔥
• -h, --help — show this help. the "bestie explain" button 🌸

✨ NOTES ✨

GoldenEye can create several concurrent workers and she can use all local resources. that's not a flex, that's a warning bestie. 😭 choose good parameters to avoid local problems, because she WILL eat your machine's lunch and not even feel bad about it.

literally do a vibe check on your own hardware before you go wild with the worker count. choose good parameters. that's the whole note. 🫶

✨ AUTHOR ✨

GoldenEye was written by Jan Seidl <jseidl@wroot.org>. 👑

this manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). she wrote the docs, she gets the flowers 💐

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was GOLDENEYE 1.2.0, dated Mar 2016 — an absolute throwback icon, still serving looks in section 1 of your manual. slay, stay safe, and only DoS things you own. mwah!! 💖✨🦋