Free posting software for linux

post is a highly configurable Web traffic generator and Web server benchmarking tool. It has lots of features, and a command line interface.

This program sends requests to a web server. It is made for benchmarking a web server or web application.

To specify a URL to request, use any of these formats:
a) service://host:port/path
b) host:port/path
c) host
d) host:port
e) host/path
f) service://host/path
g) /path

You can specify a single url on the command line with -u , or put many of them in a file and use -l . in a file, put one url per line. comment lines start with #. currently, post data will be identical for all the urls. if service is specified, it is looked up in /etc/services.

The program can send any HTTP Method (GET, POST, HEAD, DELETE, etc).
When using POST, content data can be specified in one of three ways:
a) With -d post data is on the command line
b) With -f post data is read from
c) With neither flag, post data is read from STDIN

The program can repeatedly send the same request. ie, it sends the request and when the response is completed it repeats the procedure. using the -r option, you specify the number of times to send the request. with the -i option, you specify the amount of time (in seconds) to repeat for. with -i, the request which is in-process when the timeout is reached is allowed to complete, and the program stops after that.

The -k option causes the Host: header to be included in the request. specify the hostname to send, or specify . and the hostname used will be the one from the url specified with -u.

The -j option allows specifying arbitrary HTTP headers to include in the request. the -j option can be used multiple times to add multiple HTTP headers. Put the argument in quotes if the header has spaces in it. For example: -j Max-Forwards: 0 -j Pragma: no-cache

The -s option limits data transfer rates to simulate real web clients with slow connections. Typical transfer rates:
modem: 3000
isdn: 10000

The -t option sets the timeout which defines a connect/read/write error. default is 15 seconds.

The -e option defines the behavior when the timeout is exceeded. by default, the current request is terminated and the next request is started, but using -e causes the program to exit after the first timeout/failure.

The -y option causes causes the program to randomly close the connection before
the request is completed. specify a number between 0.0 and 1.0 which is proportional to how often the client will randomly hangup. hangups may occur during send or receive, and occur proportional to the number of data packets sent. thus you may need to play around with the -c parameter a bit to find a reasonable hangup frequency.

The -w option causes the program to resolve the hostname before every post. normally, the hostname is resolved into ip-address once at the program start.

Signal Mode Operation
The program responds to the usr1 and usr2 signals allowing stopwatch-style operation of the statistics reporting.
1) run post with -i option. set to a large runtime
2) use kill -USR1 to reset the statistics
3) use kill -USR2 to print statistics
4) use kill -TSTP to stop/start posting. (toggle switch)
5) use kill -TERM to end program
steps 2,3,4 can be repeated during a single program run. if posting is stopped, statistics are reset when posting is started again.

* Benchmarking Client Mode Operation *
This mode is used when the post program will be managed by a benchmarking server. The port specified with -c is connected to, and the post program sends data on this port during operation. When in client mode operation, the signal mode operation is altered:
SIGUSR1 causes posting to start
SIGUSR2 causes posting to stop
other signals operate as before. the program will begin in the stopped state. at the completion of every request, the program sends a message to the benchmarking server. currently these are 1-byte bessages:
0x00 nothing
0x10 request successful
0x11 connect error
0x12 send error
0x13 receive error
0x14 server error
0x15 disconnect error
0x16 send hangup
0x17 receive hangup

Ypost is a command line usenet binary file poster. It provides both uuencoding and yEnc encoding posting, speed throttling, and flexible segment reposting ability.

I wrote ypost because I wanted a command-line posting program that runs under
Linux command line, and the one that was available (newspost) didnt support yEnc or throttling. I did a few updates to newspost and resubmitted the changes, but I felt that beyond a cartain point, it made more sense for me to write a new system. I decided this partially because after having used C++ for the last few years, C leaves me very nervous - there are too many ways in which C++ is far safer than C (automatic destruction, etc) and I just felt a rewrite was in order.

The installation is pretty primative. Ypost is a simple program, I hope it will compile up on most machines. Just type "make" at the command line, and when its done, copy the "ypost" executable to wherever you like, I suggest /usr/local/bin.

sinntp is a tiny NNTP client. sinntp virtually lacks any user interface: news messages are downloaded from a remote server and put into a local mailbox file.
About NNTP:
The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among news servers. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley completed RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer.
Usenet was originally designed around the UUCP network, with most article transfers taking place over direct computer-to-computer telephone links. Readers and posters would log into the same computers that hosted the servers, reading the articles directly from the local disk.
As local area networks and the Internet became more commonly used, it became desirable to allow newsreaders to be run on personal computers, and a means of employing the Internet to handle article transfers was desired. Because networked Internet-compatible filesystems were not yet widely available, it was decided to develop a new protocol that resembled SMTP, but was tailored for reading newsgroups.
The well-known TCP port 119 is reserved for NNTP. When clients connect to a news server with SSL, TCP port 563 is used. This is sometimes referred to as NNTPS.
The protocol remains in widespread use, and as of 2005 efforts are underway to produce an updated standard. The IMAP protocol can also be used for reading newsgroups.
Enhancements:
- Reading messages is not stopped if reading a message failed.

del.icio.us post is a Firefox extension that allows you to posts current page or link to del.icio.us. Adds an entry to the context menu and a button to the toolbar.

Due to some changes in version 0.4, it is advised to first uninstall any previous versions of this extension before proceeding with the installation.

After installing use View -> Toolbars -> Customize... to add the button to the toolbar.

Exupoli provides an easy XUL posting library.

Exupoli is a JavaScript libary to make communication between remote XUL and the server side scripts easier.

It uses the post method to omit XUL signing.

It makes the development process easier, and the XUL pages it produces will be accessible from any Mozilla-based browser, as it does not require Mozilla components for XML-RPC or SOAP.

Koinkoin is a chat application for KDE.
History:
At the beginning was the Web. Then came Linux, and Slashdot came with it. This is when a small group of french OSS users/coders created Linuxfr, sort of a french Slashdot.
It had one killer-feature : a web-based chat (1). It is web-based but also has an xml file that is called backend file. A first application appeared that could display and automatically reload that backend. It allowed posting too.
Then other of these chats and other clients appeared. Those clients were called coincoins, referring to the sound made by a duck in french. I told you this was almost a french thing.
Koinkoin is a coincoin for KDE.
Enhancements:
- The configuration is stored into ~/.kde.
- The board and plugins are restored.
- The custom boards are fully managed in the dialog box.
- Original english labels updated.

Exponent is a web application that allows site owners to easily create and manage dynamic websites. Unlike other site management tools, Exponent is completely self-contained.

No additional applications need to be downloaded by a user to permit them to use Exponent. Everything from user management to site configuration to content editing and approval is done within the system.

Non-technical users, web-savvy administrators and web developers of all skill levels have something to gain from Exponent. Exponent is completely self-contained, unlike other site management tools on the internet.

For Users...

For people without technical backgrounds, Exponent is a user-friendly way to update a website. The system hides much of the complexity inherent in web design and development, and presents the user with simple forms for posting news, text, calendar events and more. The standard content editor provides visual editing, allowing people to create highly stylized content without learning HTML or CSS.

For Administrators...

Website administrators are given a powerful array of tools to manage the unseen parts of their website. Maintaining the sites database, dictating what users are allowed to create and manage content on what parts of the site, and configuring the system is all done with point and click tools. The Exponent permissions system gives webmasters a powerful and flexible way to let users and groups of users participate in site maintenance. Nearly every aspect of the sites behavior is controlled by the administrator, from the overall layout to the implementation of content approval policies.

For Developers...

Exponent provides developers a rich framework for deploying web applications. With a myriad of supporting subsystems, programmers can concentrate on the specific features of their application, while using a mature and stable backdrop of tools. Database abstraction, security, high-level date and time handling, intelligent redirection and configuration routines already exist, so application designers do not spend time re-inventing these common pieces.

PyQLogger project is a friendly GUI Blogger client. It was developed by Reflog with help from Mightor, using PyQT toolkit. Currently it works on most flavors of Linux.
Main features:
- Simple and easy GUI
- Easy setup wizard
- Posts fetching from the blog for later editing and re-publishing
- Async and responsive UI
- Posts saving feature (drafts)
- On-Screen notifications of events
- Post editor with syntax highlighting (with optional QScintilla support)
- Post preview (with optional KHTML Support)
- Multiple blog support
- Post export
- Update notification (for pyqlogger itself)
- Pluggable features, like SpellChecker and others
- Unicode support
- Multiple blog providers
- Kde integration (optional)
Enhancements:
- Support for multiple accounts with different blog providers
- Allow enabling/disabling plugins
- Progress bar when uploading a picture
- Complete options dialog
- Options for each plugin separatly
- Allow plugins to store settings in main config file
- KDE Integration
- Write plugin to auto substitute keywords with preconfigured values
- Unified error/warning/info reporting mechanism, not just for Blogger status messages
- Cross-blog posting
- Plugin for pasting source code
- Support for other protocols, not just Atom Api
- Add support for stylesheets in post preview
- Ping to Weblogs.Com
- Import posts
- Add reST plugin