Denial-of-Service simulator

Requirements:

• Python3
• Installation of Flask python library
• Installation of Requests python library

In a terminal (in an python environment of your preference: pyenv, pipenv, etc) run the following command:

pip install Flask

and:

pip install requests

Client

To start the client you must supply the number of concurrent threads that will send requests to the server: python client.py 4 will start 4 concurrent threads, but you can specify any amount

For the client, the delay between each call for the same clientId was chosen to be between 0 and 1 second, you can change that value in line 29 of client.py file

Server

Before starting the server, you will need to export the following environemnt variable: FLASK_APP=server.py For example on Linux or MAC OSX terminal you can do it like this:

export FLASK_APP=server.py

And to start the server run:

flask run