apache bench broken in 1.7.3

[mindplay]

It appears that ab.exe in the Windows distribution of XAMPP is broken (?)

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C:\xampp\apache\bin>ab -n 20 -c 5 http://www.google.com
ab: invalid URL
Usage: ab [options] [http://]hostname[:port]/path
Options are:
    -n requests     Number of requests to perform
    -c concurrency  Number of multiple requests to make
    -t timelimit    Seconds to max. wait for responses
...


I've used apache bench extensively in the past, and don't recall ever running into this problem.

Tried a bunch of different URLs, and nothing seems to work...

Is it broken in this distribution?

[Narrowboyy]

It appears that ab.exe in the Windows distribution of XAMPP is broken (?)

No, it's fine.

ab: invalid URL
Usage: ab [options] [http://]hostname[:port]/path

Try a correct URL including [options] and the /path:
ab -n 20 -c 5 http://www.google.com/

C:\xampp\apache\bin>ab -n 20 -c 5 http://www.google.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking google.com (be patient).....done

Server Software: gws
Server Hostname: google.com
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 219 bytes
...

Or without [Options]
ab google.com/

C:\xampp\apache\bin>ab google.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking google.com (be patient).....done

Server Software: gws
Server Hostname: google.com
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 219 bytes
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