ApacheBench doesn’t seem to be capable of ignoring certificate problems (at least some of them) so I wrote this script:
#!/bin/bash
K=200;
HTTPSA='https://192.168.1.103:443/'
date +%M-%S-%N>wgetres.txt
for (( c=1; c<=$K; c++ ))
do
wget --no-check-certificate --secure-protocol=SSLv3 --spider $HTTPSA
done
date +%M-%S-%N>>wgetres.txt
It’s not as precise as AB, but gives the idea. Does well in comparison tests.