Apache Benchmark HTTPS Issue

Question

I cannot get apache benchmark to work with my site. Whenever I issue this command

ab https://example.com/

I would get this output error:

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1663405 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking example.com (be patient)...

SSL handshake failed (1).
27506:error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error:/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-59/src/ssl/s23_clnt.c:593:
..done

Is this because apache benchmark cannot detect the SSL certificate properly on my local machine?

Answer 1

For https testing, I've used the abs command. It's the https pendant of ab for http.

You'll find it just alongside the ab command when you download the Apache Server http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi look inside the compressed filehttpd-{version}\support\ folder and you'll see it.

Hopes this helps