Crapify
Dev tools
network testing proxy
SHOW HN2015
96points
17comments
#255of 2,565 in 2015
Top 10%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for testing concurrency and throttling problems
From 1 comment
This is cool. If it could add random NATing between various VLANs and occasionally not open firewall ports as configured, it would be a simulation of my work environment!
Spooky23 on HN
Objections
Existing tools like Chrome devtools, Charles, dummynet and Network Link Conditioner already do this
From 3 comments
If you simply need to test a website on a simulated slow connection, then Chrome Devtools. For all other purposes, this looks great!
Rygu on HNWhy not use DummyNet, Clumsy or Network Link Conditioner (depending on your OS of choice)? If you really need a HTTP proxy there are tools like Charles (although the low RTT to a…
youngtaff on HNOn OS X you can achieve something similar using ipfw For example, sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 500KByte/s Limits all network on your box to 500kb/s sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port…
taf2 on HN
Requests
Simulate random NAT between VLANs and firewall port failures
From 1 comment
This is cool. If it could add random NATing between various VLANs and occasionally not open firewall ports as configured, it would be a simulation of my work environment!
Spooky23 on HN
Alternatives named
Comcast
From 1 comment
Nice! There was a different tool in the same category, aptly named "Comcast", featured on HN a few weeks ago: https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast
semi-extrinsic on HN
Chrome devtools network throttling
From 2 comments
If you simply need to test a website on a simulated slow connection, then Chrome Devtools. For all other purposes, this looks great!
Rygu on HNUnfortunately ipfw has been removed in Yosemite. Fortunately, there is something similar built into Chrome dev tools now.
james33 on HN
Network Link Conditioner
From 2 comments
Don't the OSX devtools have a GUI for doing this? Can't remember what its called, I don't have XCode installed these days, but I remember it being pretty nifty. EDIT: its called…
JonnieCache on HNI have Network Link Conditioner installed on my Yosemite Mac OS X box and it works fine (though it was installed prior to the Yose upgrade). I learned about it here:…
apinstein on HN
Charles Proxy
From 1 comment
I (and folks I work with) have had really great success using Charles Proxy for per-machine bandwidth throttling. Also has some handy features like AJAX debugging.…
imjared on HN
ipfw
From 1 comment
On OS X you can achieve something similar using ipfw For example, sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 500KByte/s Limits all network on your box to 500kb/s sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port…
taf2 on HN
tc (linux)
From 1 comment
For linux there is tool 'tc'
hippich on HN
browsermob-proxy
From 1 comment
A more complete version of this: https://github.com/lightbody/browsermob-proxy ``` * captures performance data in the HAR format. * blacklisting and whitelisting certain URL…
hrjet on HN