---
name: "goldeneye"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "goldeneye"
version: "1.2.0+git20191230-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/goldeneye"
---

# goldeneye(1)

HTTP DoS test tool

## NAME

**goldeneye** - HTTP DoS test tool

## SYNOPSIS

```
goldeneye <URL> [OPTIONS]
```

## DESCRIPTION

GoldenEye is a HTTP DoS Test Tool. This tool can be used to test if a site is susceptible to Deny of Service (DoS) attacks. Is possible to open several parallel connections against a URL to check if the web server can be compromised.

The program tests the security in networks and uses 'HTTP Keep Alive + NoCache' as attack vector.

## OPTIONS

- **-u, --useragents**

  File with user-agents to use. Default: randomly generated. On Debian systems, there are lists of user-agents at /usr/share/**goldeneye**/useragents/ directory.

- **-w, --workers**

  Number of concurrent workers. Default: 10.

- **-s, --sockets**

  Number of concurrent sockets. Default: 500.

- **-m, --method**

  HTTP method to use. Values: 'get', 'post' and 'random'. Default: get.

- **-d, --debug**

  Enable debug mode \[more verbose output\].

- **-h, --help**

  Show this help.

## NOTES

GoldenEye can create several concurrent workers and it can use all local resources. Choose good parameters to avoid local problems.

## AUTHOR

GoldenEye was written by Jan Seidl \<jseidl@wroot.org\>.

This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \<eriberto@debian.org\> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).