I need to pass the token generated in one request into another request.
In second request,
I cannot pass the Authorization as the header because the API is not designed in a way to pass the token as header, nor Authorization manager is working as I need to pass the body and in Authorization manager I am not able to locate where to pass the body.
Is there any other way apart from Authorization manager or Header manager?
HTTP Authorization Manager generates and sends the relevant Authorization header, the header value differs depending on the protocol which is being used for the authentication/authorization from basic access control to NTLM and Kerberos
HTTP Header Manager allows you to send arbitrary HTTP headers including the aforementioned Authorization one
Unfortunately we cannot suggest how exactly you can pass the token, you need to
check the API contract or documentation, some API implementations have special documentation endpoints
contact the people who "designed" the "API"
capture the request from the real browser using browser developer tools or if it's another application use a sniffer tool like Wireshark or Fiddler
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I'm doing load testing my REST API - to hit the API request header should contain a valid token. I'm dynamically generating my request body - the same way I would like to generate header token dynamically using JMeter - what is the best approach to do that?
In order to access the resource which requires full authorization you need to provide so called "Bearer Token" via HTTP Header Manager, you need to add Authorization header with the value of Bearer ${followed by the dynamic token}
The process of obtaining the token depends on OAuth Grant Type used in your application, you need to figure out which authentication/authorization flow is being used and implement it in JMeter using HTTP Request samplers and suitable Post-Processors for correlating the dynamic values.
Im using Jmeter to write some load tests on an API secured by oAuth.
I want to be able to reuse the header manager once the bearer token has been produced from the access token call.
However when I try to move the header manager out side of the http request the call is no longer authorised. I think its because it can no longer get the bearer token.
For Post Request, when i put the header manager outside it no longer works, it only works when I put it under the request as I have done for User get request, Delete request and Put request.
How do I make the header manager reusable and therefore only manage one header manager?
Thank you.
{"fault":{"faultstring":"Invalid access token","detail":{"errorcode":"oauth.v2.InvalidAccessToken"}}}
My expectation is that this is due to clash with the HTTP Authorization Manager
Both are Configuration Elements and both obey JMeter Scoping rules
When you move HTTP Header Manager outside the HTTP Request sampler it might be the case that Authorization Header comes from the HTTP Authorization Manager
You can check which exact header value is being sent using Request -> Request Headers tab of the View Results Tree listener
Given you manually create Authorization header for your request I believe if you disable or delete the HTTP Authorization Manager your test should start working as expected as you basically don't need it.
I have a test configured in Jmeter for a HTTP basic auth-protected site. I have an HTTP Authorization Manager configured at the top level with the user/pass for this auth.
There's one http request buried deep in the thread ('Get configurable product options' in the pic below) that I do not want to send the Authorization header with: it's a REST call and I'm sending a bearer Authorization header instead.
I have a HTTP Header Manager assigned to this call with the specific Authorization header defined. All I want is for the Basic Auth header not to be sent, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how.
How do I override this so that the Authorization header set by the HTTP Header Manager overrides the one set by the Authorization Manager?
As per documentation for the HTTP Authorization Manager (JMeter 5.0)
If there is more than one Authorization Manager in the scope of a Sampler, there is currently no way to specify which one is to be used.
So the only way you can override the Authorization header value is using HTTP Header Manager
Add HTTP Header Manager as a child which header you want to override
Configure it as follows:
Name: Authorization
Value: ${__base64Encode(username:password,)}
Replace username and password with your real credentials
Keep in mind that __base64Encode() is a custom JMeter function, if you don't have it already you will need to install it via JMeter Plugins Manager
I'm building an MVC web app that uses the openID Connect hybrid flow to authenticate with Identity Server 3. The MVC web app contains jQuery scripts to get async JSON data from een ApiController. That ApiController is part of the same MVC web app.
I don't want that everyone is able to access the data from the API, so I want to secure the API as well. I added an [authorize] attribute to the ApiController. When requesting the API with a JQuery ajax request I get the following error message:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load
https://localhost:44371/identity/connect/authorize?....etc.
Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:13079' is therefore not allowed
access. The response had HTTP status code 405.
But, when I do a request to the API method directly in browser, I will be correct redirected to the Login page of Identity Server..
So, what's exactly the problem here? I read something about that requesting the /authorize endpoint is not allowed via 'back-channel', but I don't understand what's the difference between 'front-channel' and 'back-channel'. Is it possible that I mixed up the wrong OAuth flows? Is the Hybrid flow not the correct one maybe?
I also find out that the API is often a seperate app, but is it always neccessary / best-practice to build a seperate API app that for example requires a bearer token?
Please point me in the right direction about this.
The authorize method on your identity server does not allow ajax calls. Even specifying CORS headers is not going to help you in this particular case. Perhaps you could return a forbidden response instead of a redirect and manually redirect the client to the desired location via window.location
You need to allow your IdentityServer to be accessed from other domains, this is done by allowing "Cross Origin Resource Sharing" or CORS for short. In IdentityServer the simplest way to allow this is in your Client configuration for your Javascript Client, see this from the IdentityServer docs on CORS:
One approach to configuing CORS is to use the AllowedCorsOrigins collection on the client configuration. Simply add the origin of the client to the collection and the default configuration in IdentityServer will consult these values to allow cross-origin calls from the origins.
The error you're seeing is the browser telling you that when it asked IdentityServer if it allows requests from your Javscript client, it returned a response basically saying no, because the origin (http://localhost:13079) was not specified in the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" response header. In fact that header wasn't in the response at all meaning CORS is not enabled.
If you follow the quickstart for adding a JavaScript client from the docs here all the necessary code is detailed there that you need for the Client config and to setup IdentityServer to allow CORS.
I have a http request that auto generates '_token' value with the request(this value generated under http request only, not in the response of this request) and this '_token' value needs to be passed to the next http request header as 'authorization'. I know we can use JSON/RegEx post processor if it is in Response of the first http request. However how it be be correlated if the dynamic value is in http request.
Please suggest how can we achieve this in jmeter.
Most likely you are trying to load test an application which uses OAuth and depending on OAuth version and your application setup there could be different options. If the token is permanent - you can just put it into HTTP Header Manager, however if the token expires more or less frequently - you will need to implement OAuth flow using JMeter (in some cases you will need some extras like scripting, kick off browser to open a redirect URL or use OAuth client libraries). Check out How to Run Performance Tests on OAuth Secured Apps with JMeter article for details.
I would suggest contacting your application developers to learn about OAuth version, settings, required client id/secret, etc.