diff --git a/src/pkg/net/http/request_test.go b/src/pkg/net/http/request_test.go
index 189184795e..0e7bda1b95 100644
--- a/src/pkg/net/http/request_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/net/http/request_test.go
@@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ Content-Disposition: form-data; name="textb"
 `
 
 func benchmarkReadRequest(b *testing.B, request string) {
+	request = request + "\n"                             // final \n
+	request = strings.Replace(request, "\n", "\r\n", -1) // expand \n to \r\n
 	b.SetBytes(int64(len(request)))
 	r := bufio.NewReader(&infiniteReader{buf: []byte(request)})
 	b.ReportAllocs()
@@ -428,16 +430,9 @@ func (r *infiniteReader) Read(b []byte) (int, error) {
 	return n, nil
 }
 
-func min(a, b int) int {
-	if a > b {
-		return b
-	}
-	return a
-}
-
-func BenchmarkReadRequest(b *testing.B) {
+func BenchmarkReadRequestChrome(b *testing.B) {
 	// https://github.com/felixge/node-http-perf/blob/master/fixtures/get.http
-	const request = `GET / HTTP/1.1
+	benchmarkReadRequest(b, `GET / HTTP/1.1
 Host: localhost:8080
 Connection: keep-alive
 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
@@ -446,7 +441,41 @@ Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
 Cookie: __utma=1.1978842379.1323102373.1323102373.1323102373.1; EPi:NumberOfVisits=1,2012-02-28T13:42:18; CrmSession=5b707226b9563e1bc69084d07a107c98; plushContainerWidth=100%25; plushNoTopMenu=0; hudson_auto_refresh=false
-
-`
-	benchmarkReadRequest(b, strings.Replace(request, "\n", "\r\n", -1))
+`)
+}
+
+func BenchmarkReadRequestCurl(b *testing.B) {
+	// curl http://localhost:8080/
+	benchmarkReadRequest(b, `GET / HTTP/1.1
+User-Agent: curl/7.27.0
+Host: localhost:8080
+Accept: */*
+`)
+}
+
+func BenchmarkReadRequestApachebench(b *testing.B) {
+	// ab -n 1 -c 1 http://localhost:8080/
+	benchmarkReadRequest(b, `GET / HTTP/1.0
+Host: localhost:8080
+User-Agent: ApacheBench/2.3
+Accept: */*
+`)
+}
+
+func BenchmarkReadRequestSiege(b *testing.B) {
+	// siege -r 1 -c 1 http://localhost:8080/
+	benchmarkReadRequest(b, `GET / HTTP/1.1
+Host: localhost:8080
+Accept: */*
+Accept-Encoding: gzip
+User-Agent: JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.70)
+Connection: keep-alive
+`)
+}
+
+func BenchmarkReadRequestWrk(b *testing.B) {
+	// wrk -t 1 -r 1 -c 1 http://localhost:8080/
+	benchmarkReadRequest(b, `GET / HTTP/1.1
+Host: localhost:8080
+`)
 }