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In building a website scraper with Chrome and Node.js, I made mistakes that led to connection leaks. In this application, the scraper runs in a browser and connects to a node.js server, which saves data off to a database. Once you know what the issues look like, they are easy to see, but otherwise often difficult [...] Read More...

The directions as follows work for a local VM environment (VirtualBox/Vagrant), on a Windows host. Apache Bench is installed from XAMPP. If pointing ab directly at the VM, use the machine IP address (127.0.0.1 is fine). If proxying through Fiddler, it must use localhost, or the requests do not display in Fiddler. You must also [...] Read More...