I am testing an API endpoint for which there is a form based authentication(for additional security). Can someone suggest how to handle form based authentication in Jmeter. I tried with HTTP Authorization Manage, still my request is failing.
You basically need to submit a HTML Form by sending a HTTP POST request using JMeter's HTTP Request sampler.
Given you provide correct credentials you should be authorized for further actions.
In some cases you will need to perform correlation as you might have to provide a dynamic parameter (or several) along with the credentials as your application can use these parameters for i.e. CSRF protection or for other reasons so make sure to carefully inspect the request sent by the real browser (you can capture the original request using browser developer tools) and if there are any dynamic parameters - you should extract them from the previous response using a suitable JMeter Post-Processor
Once you successfully log in it should be enough to add HTTP Cookie Manager to maintain the user session.
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I have a login form that has form method set to POST, form-action set to a servlet, and an OnSubmit function to check the field data.I want to performance test a file download funcitonality that lies behind this login form. To acheive this i am running a parallel sampler to login and then download the file.
The first sampler is for the login and the second one is to dowload the file.
In the first sampler, I want to POST data on this form using JMeter's HTTP Reqest Sampler.
I have inspected the form and created a sampler with three parameters, the username, the password and one more non-discloseable field. I have set the path to the servlet since it is the one handling the requests for the form.
The post request doesn't do anything in this case.
What should i do or check or modify to make sure that the POST request is hitting the correct endpoint and that it actually submits the form data.
You need the samplers to be sequential, I think if you attempt to download the file without prior logging in - the request will fail somewhere somehow.
If it is not sufficient and you would like to add an extra level of checks, i.e. test that the endpoint returns anticipated response code or has certain text you could add Response Assertion as a child of the request and add pass/fail criteria there.
If you don't know how to properly build login and download requests, the easiest way is just recording them using HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder, JMeter will capture the requests and generate relevant HTTP Request samplers and HTTP Header Managers
I am trying to do the load testing of salesforce.com. I am logging via test.salesforce.com which is redirecting me to the console url. Now, subsequent post request accepts following post parameters.
ViewStateCSRF
ViewStateMAC
visualforce.ViewState
But this post request is failing with "invalid session" error message.
I am guessing this is because of CSRF token. I am trying to extract(post processor in Jmeter) CSRF token, but I am unable to find this token anywhere in the response/cookie of previous requests. In one of the HTML response, I can find few CSRF tokens(e.g: runApexCsrfToken, consoleAjaxCsrfToken etc). I have tried all of them but no result.
To summarize my problem: I need to pass csrf token in post login request but I am unable to find this token in previous responses.
Could you please help me with this.
PS: I have tried get request on "https://c.salesforce.com/libs/granite/csrf/token.json" after login but did not find any token in response.
Make sure to add HTTP Cookie Manager to your Test Plan
Make sure to check all response fields as the token can be a part of URL or come as a HTTP Header
You need to correlate not only ViewStateCSRF but all other dynamic parameters as well
If you have problems with identifying the source for the dynamic parameters values you can try recording your scenario using cloud-based proxy service, it is capable of exporting recorded scripts in "SmartJMX" mode with automatic detection and correlation of dynamic parameters. See How to Cut Your JMeter Scripting Time by 80% article for more details
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.
I am trying to make a script to test REST services using Jmeter.
Till now I was using Chrome’s Advanced REST Client.
My authentication request was GET and it was something like this in Advanced REST:
https://username:password#URL:portnumber
its a GET request
Now when I am using Jmeter. I tried following ways:
I added HTTP Authorization Manager and mentioned Base URL and Username/password inside it.
When I am trying to do a request then its showing me “Unauthorized”
I also tried to login using normal https request but no success.
When accessed manually, a authorization popup window appears and username and password is submitted inside this window.
Please suggest me a way for how to login using Jmeter.
Few suggestions:
Most likely you have mismatch in URL you're trying hit and the one, specified in HTTP Authorization Manager, double check it.
Add View Results Tree listener and make sure that the header like:
Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxx=
is being sent along with the request and compare it with the one, sent by the real browser.
Try switching "Implementation" of your HTTP Request samplers to HttpClient3.1, the easiest way of doing this is using HTTP Request Defaults
And finally, you can use HTTP Header Manager to send the relevant header, it's name should be Authorization and value Basic and username:password encoded in Base64. There is base64Encode function available via JMeter Plugins.
I am testing particular application using JMeter 2.9.There My test plan is Thread group--> Transaction Controller.Inside that various recorded requests are there.I am using HTTP request defaults,HTTP Cookie manager and HTTP header manager,and a view result tree for validation.I found one token i.e. CSRF token to be correlated and I did correlation.But for a particular request I am finding "Session expired..Login again" response much before the logout request.My transaction flow is to Login--> Search a content-->Logout.
Please help me finding a solution.
Try put the element: HTTP Cookie Manager in Thread Group, first item.
the problem can be in the following areas:
-you were redirected automatically instead of following redirects
-login hasn't succeeded
-the session id has not been successfully passed on to the request after login
The JMeter documentation states this:
I've set up JMeter to sample the same URLs as my browser, why is JMeter not seeing the same responses?
There are various different reasons for this:
Cookies - make sure you added a Cookie Manager. Browsers process cookies unless you set them up otherwise, but JMeter does not process cookies unless you add a Cookie Manager.
User-Agent - the User-Agent is a header that is sent by browsers; it identifies the browser type. Some servers are sensitive to this setting and generate different results for what they think are different browsers. The Header Manager is used to add headers such as User-Agent.
Hidden fields - if you did not use the JMeter Proxy (or other application) to record the test plan, then it is easy to miss hidden fields from forms.
Dynamic field names/content - some servers use varying names for fields. So although the test plan may be correct at the time of creation, it does not work when replayed.
URL rewriting - TBA
from http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-jmeter/DifferentBehaviour