In this video you will see yet another example of baselining or calibrating an application reported results using Wireshark.
I am far from being a ‘programmer’ but have been programming since my college days in all sort of programming languages.
In the past 3 years, I have been moving away from Perl and getting more familiar with Python with no specific reason other than variety and for just my own personal education.
I wrote this script (with some help from ChatGPT and some snippets I found online that will record the TCP and HTTP response time, along with the current date/time and write it to a CSV format file.
I personally believe anyone in the technology space should be exposed to, and write the odd bit of code. It could be to automate a mundane task, performance measurements or anything you might need to accomplish that is specific to your environment.
Python script simply copy and paste the text between the ====== lines I called this script https_and_tcp_response time.py
#pip install requests
import socket
import ssl
import time
import requests
from datetime import datetime
def measure_tcp_response_time(hostname, port):
start_time = time.time()
sock = socket.create_connection((hostname, port))
sock.close()
end_time = time.time()
return end_time - start_time
def measure_https_response_time(url):
start_time = time.time()
response = requests.get(url)
end_time = time.time()
return end_time - start_time
def main(url):
hostname = url.split("//")[-1].split("/")[0]
tcp_port = 443
tcp_response_time = measure_tcp_response_time(hostname, tcp_port)
https_response_time = measure_https_response_time(url)
current_time = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
with open("response_times.txt", "a") as file:
file.write(f"Time,TCP Response Time, HTTPS Response Time in seconds\n")
file.write(f"{current_time},{tcp_response_time:.6f},{https_response_time:.6f}\n")
if name == "__main__":
url = "https://www.thetechfirm.com" # Replace with your desired URL
main(url)
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