passing different request Headers per each request from an external file

[gunayus]

Is it possible to pass different (random) request Headers per each http request from an external file? if not, would you like to add this feature?

my use case is following, I would like to load test my application but for different user accounts in order to eliminate non-realistic cache hits. my app expects 'Authorization' request header to identify the end user.

[rogerwelin]

Hi @gunayus! Thanks for the interesting in the project and sorry about the late reply.

Regarding this feature, would it suffice with adding a new flag (that could be called --randomize-header for example) that would generate a random string for the header key that you define for each requests? Or is there a reason you want to define the headers in a file?

I think of the following way it could be implement in from a cli point of view:

$ ./cassowary run -u https://www.example.com -c 10 -n 1000 --randomize-header Authorization

Here cassowary would generate a random value for the Authorization header key for each request. Would this satisfy your requirement?

[gunayus]

thank you @rogerwelin for the reply. I don't think randomized Authorization header would help because the application would return 401 for each request.

That's why I should be able to provide valid header values from a file, then, cassowary can randomly select any of the provided headers,