goreplay/docs/The-Basics.md

Overview

Gor architecture tries to follow UNIX philosophy: everything made of pipes, various inputs multiplexing data to outputs.

You can [rate limit](Rate limiting), [filter](Request filtering), [rewrite](Request rewriting) requests or even use your own middleware to implement custom logic. Also, it is possible to replay requests at the higher rate for [load testing](Saving and Replaying from file).

Available input and output plugins

Available inputs:

• --input-raw - used to capture HTTP traffic, you should specify IP address or interface and application port. More about Capturing and replaying traffic.
• --input-file - accepts file which previously was recorded using --output-file. More about Saving and Replaying from file
• --input-tcp - used by Gor aggregation instance if you decided forward traffic from multiple forwarder Gor instances to it. Read about using Aggregator-forwarder setup.

Available outputs:

• --output-http - replay HTTP traffic to given endpoint, accepts base url. Read [more about it](Replaying HTTP traffic)
• --output-file - records incoming traffic to the file. More about Saving and Replaying from file
• --output-tcp - forward incoming data to another Gor instance, used in conjunction with --input-tcp. Read more about Aggregator-forwarder setup.
• --output-stdout - used for debugging, outputs all data to stdout.