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I recently re-discovered autossh. I’ve been using it to persist mounted sshfs volumes but am only just now realizing it’s the scratch for some of my other itches.
With it I can
autossh -M50000 -t -D1080 -Nf crashingdaily.com
to keep a seemingly persistent SOCKS proxy running.
Or
autossh -M50000 -t crashingdaily.com 'screen -aAdR autossh'
to maintain an interactive session.
The value that I missed earlier is that the connections are maintained (re-established, actually) even if I change networks – which my laptop and I often do.
Jon’s View has a nice posting on using autossh for SOCKS proxying.
And Dread Pirate PJ has a good instruction for combining autossh and screen for persistent interactive sessions.
autossh is available for OS X via Darwin Ports and Fink and for Linux as source code or as binary packages from repositories for most modern Linux distributions.
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s posting about my brief experience with YSlow in a Selenium framework, comes the release of Cesium 0.1, a tool specifically designed for automating YSlow runs.
I don’t care enough about YSlow tests to setup and maintain another test harness just for that purpose, so I don’t think I’ll be trying it myself. For others who get in to this sort of thing, here’s something to get in to.
Adam Goucher has a clever idea to automate YSlow reporting to a Show Slow database with Selenium.
Well, I tried this with my Selenium RC setup, testing one page. In my setup, two beacons are sent by YSlow to the Show Slow database but the urls recorded,
http://localhost:3000/selenium-server/core/Blank.html?start=true
and
chrome://src/content/RemoteRunner.html?sessionId=2d7695881a3881f940ada5bc889a6dee&multiWindow=true&baseUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fintegrate.crashingdaily.com&debugMode=false&driverUrl=http://localhost:3000/selenium-server/driver/
are not the ones for the page under test. Neither report generated from selenium matches the report I get from the standalone browser so it’s not just a matter of the url being misreported to Show Slow.
disappointing.
crashingdaily 