Sorry about the radio silence. Your JoeDog has been turning caffeine into code again. We’ve applied some patches to siege. Thanks to Rob, we fixed a potential segfault. Thanks to Kaspar, you guys can post from files that contain null bytes.

We’re also working on NTLM authentication. That’s the stuff Microsofties like to use when they configure IIS. At the moment, support is next to worthless. You can successfully authenticate but it doesn’t maintain session. So it works great for -g/–get requests but don’t expect to lay siege with it.

Your JoeDog wanted this code in the main branch so it was available to other developers. It does no harm to include this partially broken implementation. NTLM Authentication didn’t before today. Now it partially works. Baby steps, people. Baby steps.

Much of the implementation was stolen from wget-1.16. Their implementation was stolen from libcurl. The first rule of open source is this: never reinvent the wheel. Our problem does not involve hashing passwords into something IIS understands. The wget/libcurl code performs just fine. We’re having trouble maintaining session after authentication.

There’s a chance we’ll bundle a source distribution soon but in the meantime, siege-3.1.1 is available on GitHub:  JoeDog / Siege