I am trying jmeter for the first time. I have to load test a site that has authentication control using Apache htpasswd. I tried setting up the http Authorization manager, but i keep getting this error
Headers size in bytes: 291
Body size in bytes: 491
Sample Count: 1
Error Count: 1
Response code: 401
Response message: Authorization Required
I have given the site name, username, password given in the Authorization manager. Am i missing anything?
Are you sure that it's really Basic authentication? How do you know? What happens if you inject username and password into URL as
http://username:password#site/path
If result will differ from 401 you could try providing Base URL (including the path) along with credentials.
See How to use HTTP Basic Authentication in JMeter guide for more details on how to properly configure HTTP Authorization Manager for Basic authentication challenge.
Just in case if anything goes wrong you can also use HTTP Header Manager. Looking into HTTP Request details, Basic HTTP Authentication results in the following HTTP Header:
Name: Authorization
Value: Basic [Base64-encoded username:password] string
So you can construct proper authorization header as follows:
Add a HTTP Header Manager to your plan
Put "Authorization" into "Name" field
Put "Basic " into value field (mention space after basic"
Now you need to know Base64-encoded value of username and password pair separated by colon. In order to know this
navigate to https://www.base64encode.org/
put your credentials as "username:password" (without quotes) into form and click "Encode" button
append the resulting encoded value to HTTP Header Manager's "Value" stanza, after "Basic "
Hope this helps.
Thanks! that solution
http://username:password#site/path
worked. It actually gave me an invalid character error for ":" and I had to replace : with %3A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding) and it worked. Thanks again!
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I have recorded a native app in jmeter. It shows one auto-generated 'Authorization Manager' where username is appearing as '${Auth_Login}' and password as ${Auth_password}.
I am running the script but the response is appearing as :
"{"error":"No authorization header."}"
Please help me out to resolve this issue.
You should extract the token which returns from the first response using a post processor (i.e regular expression extractor).
Now add this token to the next request's header manager like this:
Name: Authorization
Value: ${Token}
Note: you should check the request header using traffic capturing tool i.e fiddler, because these names might not be the same also the token sometimes looks like this Bearer ${Token}
See using regex with jmeter for more information on regular expression extractor.
I am running a staging cluster of apache/nginx webservers where the domain has basic authentication restricted access. My goal is to test performance of the cluster with jmeter.
In order to pass the authentication I have added the HTTP Authentication controler of jmeter. This works, BUT every request shows two logentries at apache. One 200 and one 401. This is normal behavior as of the first request the user must be authenticated. Unfortunatelly, jmeter does this on every request.
How can I make sure that each thread/user only requests access once. Or even better, how could I grant jmeter access with without every user needing to authenticat. I believe that this will impact the test results.
Thank you for any hint on this.
It sounds like a JMeter bug as given proper "Authorization" header is provided there shouldn't be WWW-Authenticate challenge. If you could file it via JMeter Bugzilla or flag it via JMeter Users Mailing List that would be great
In the meantime you can work it around using one of the following approaches:
Inject credentials directly into URL - in case of JMeter into "Path" input field like:
http://username:password#host.domain/path
Use Beanshell Scripting to construct proper "Authorization" header on-the-fly. In order to do so:
Make sure that HTTP Header Manager is present. If not - add it on Test Plan level or as a child of the HTTP Request which needs to be authenticated
add Beanshell PreProcessor as a child of HTTP Request which needs to be authenticated
Provide username and password separated by space via "Parameters" input
Put the following code into the PreProcessor's "Script" area
import org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.util.Base64Encoder;
import org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.Header;
String encodedCredentials = Base64Encoder.encode(bsh.args[0] + ":" + bsh.args[1]);
sampler.getHeaderManager().add(new Header("Authorization", "Basic " + encodedCredentials));
You shouldn't be receiving any 401 codes anywhere anymore.
I am trying to do Basic Authentication for protected endpoints. I tried the following :
In the HTTP Header Manager, add an entry with the name "Authorization" and the value "Basic [encoded credentials from above]" as suggested in JMeter Basic Authentication
Added Http Authorization manager and added the
base url as https://shopping-qa.myproject.mydomain.comalong with the username and password. The url of the endpoint is https://shopping-qa.myproject.mydomain.com/api/v3/profile/summary.
While it works when I use the option 1, it does not work when I use option 2. I also uncommented httpclient.parameters.file=httpclient.parameters in jmeter.Properties and http.authentication.preemptive$Boolean=true in httpclient.parameters. But I still do not get the authentication to work.
Any suggestions on where I am going wrong?
Thank you!
If you use httpclient.parameters - make sure that you have HTTPClient3 implementation of the HTTP Request Sampler(s).
Double check that HTTP Authorization Manager really adds "Authorization" header and credentials are correct.
See How to use HTTP Basic Authentication in JMeter for example of bypassing basic HTTP authentication in phpmyadmin.
I am trying to imply the basic authentication process for a web service using JMeter. But everytime it throws out an error 401:Unauthorized. I tried using the HTTP Header manager to add a header Authorization and value to it. Still it does not work. I have also tried using the HTTP Authorization manager. Still no luck. Can someone help.
I've found through debugging requests coming in from JMeter that the HTTP Authorization Manager module doesn't encode the username and password correctly. It puts a newline character after the username.
To run a JMeter test against a Basic Auth protected endpoint, include the HTTP Header Manager and add the Basic Auth header yourself:
Manually Encoding Credentials
From MacOS or Linux:
echo -n "username:password" | base64
From Windows:
Go here and encode your "username:password" string
Adding the Authorization Header
In the HTTP Header Manager, add an entry with the name "Authorization" and the value "Basic [encoded credentials from above]"
Edit 19 august 2017 for JMeter 3.2:
Use answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/12563623/460802
Basically to bypass a Basic Authorization you need to add the Authorization header with the value Basic base64(username:password). The problem is that JMeter has no base64 function embedded.
The solution is :
Step1 Add BeanShell PreProcessor (PreProcessor --> BeanShell Preprocessor)
Step2 Add the following script to the PreProcessor
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
byte[] encodedUsernamePassword = Base64.encodeBase64("neo4j:1234".getBytes());
vars.put("base64HeaderValue",new String(encodedUsernamePassword));
Step3 Add HTTP Header Manager
Step4 Add Authorization header with correct value
header name Authorization
header value Basic ${base64HeaderValue} (base64HeaderValue variable is initialized by the BeanShell Preprocessor)
So in the end when you create a http request Authorization header will be passed to the server with base64 encoded string
Do the following:
1/ Configure HTTP Authorization Manager correctly with all required fields
2/
Option 1 : Using HTTP 4 : (default)
it is possible since JMeter 3.2 without any further configuration using Authorization Manager
Option 2 : Using HTTP 3.1 : (deprecated)
in jmeter.properties , uncomment:
httpclient.parameters.file=httpclient.parameters
in httpclient.parameters, uncomment:
http.authentication.preemptive$Boolean=true
If you're looking to learn JMeter, this book by 3 developers of the project will help you
Make sure to provide a protocol for the base URL, i.e.: "http://localhost" instead of "localhost"
Like Ryan T said, in the HTTP Header Manager, add an entry with the name "Authorization" and the value "Basic [encoded credentials from above]" but without [].
If you get Response code as 401, then add "HTTP Authorization manager" Config Element
I am using Jmeter 3.3
GO to Jmeter on User choose add then HTTP Authorization Manager
Then add ur url , userid,password
If response type is json then add HTTP Header manager
You can easily use JSON Extractor for authentication inside the auth request to store the token in a variable, then you will just need to use it whenever the token is needed, in order to use that you will need an HTTP header manager using that variable you can follow the screenshots for clear instructions.
JSON Extractor configuration:
HTTP header manager configuration:
In reference to the first answer above, the incorrect encoding problem you mention must be now fixed, as Apache 3.1 does appear to encode the username:password correctly in HTTP Auth Manager
Adding a slight variation of #yurko which uses the username & password from User defined variables. (for Jmeter prior to 3.2)
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
String username = vars.get("USERNAME");
String password = vars.get("PASSWORD");
String combineduserpass = username + ":" + password;
byte[] encodedUsernamePassword = Base64.encodeBase64(combineduserpass.getBytes());
vars.put("base64HeaderValue",new String(encodedUsernamePassword));
Updating good findings from your 2013 answers:
The HTTP4 option also works under current Jmeter version 2.13
after adding HTTP Header Manager row containing:
name="Authorization", value="Basic [base64-encoded user/password string]"
Verified on current host amazon linux having reverse proxy from apache 2.4 to tomcat8; tomcat8 recognized the user credentials instead of throwing 401 status.
I am trying to imply the basic authentication process for a web service using JMeter. But everytime it throws out an error 401:Unauthorized. I tried using the HTTP Header manager to add a header Authorization and value to it. Still it does not work. I have also tried using the HTTP Authorization manager. Still no luck. Can someone help.
I've found through debugging requests coming in from JMeter that the HTTP Authorization Manager module doesn't encode the username and password correctly. It puts a newline character after the username.
To run a JMeter test against a Basic Auth protected endpoint, include the HTTP Header Manager and add the Basic Auth header yourself:
Manually Encoding Credentials
From MacOS or Linux:
echo -n "username:password" | base64
From Windows:
Go here and encode your "username:password" string
Adding the Authorization Header
In the HTTP Header Manager, add an entry with the name "Authorization" and the value "Basic [encoded credentials from above]"
Edit 19 august 2017 for JMeter 3.2:
Use answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/12563623/460802
Basically to bypass a Basic Authorization you need to add the Authorization header with the value Basic base64(username:password). The problem is that JMeter has no base64 function embedded.
The solution is :
Step1 Add BeanShell PreProcessor (PreProcessor --> BeanShell Preprocessor)
Step2 Add the following script to the PreProcessor
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
byte[] encodedUsernamePassword = Base64.encodeBase64("neo4j:1234".getBytes());
vars.put("base64HeaderValue",new String(encodedUsernamePassword));
Step3 Add HTTP Header Manager
Step4 Add Authorization header with correct value
header name Authorization
header value Basic ${base64HeaderValue} (base64HeaderValue variable is initialized by the BeanShell Preprocessor)
So in the end when you create a http request Authorization header will be passed to the server with base64 encoded string
Do the following:
1/ Configure HTTP Authorization Manager correctly with all required fields
2/
Option 1 : Using HTTP 4 : (default)
it is possible since JMeter 3.2 without any further configuration using Authorization Manager
Option 2 : Using HTTP 3.1 : (deprecated)
in jmeter.properties , uncomment:
httpclient.parameters.file=httpclient.parameters
in httpclient.parameters, uncomment:
http.authentication.preemptive$Boolean=true
If you're looking to learn JMeter, this book by 3 developers of the project will help you
Make sure to provide a protocol for the base URL, i.e.: "http://localhost" instead of "localhost"
Like Ryan T said, in the HTTP Header Manager, add an entry with the name "Authorization" and the value "Basic [encoded credentials from above]" but without [].
If you get Response code as 401, then add "HTTP Authorization manager" Config Element
I am using Jmeter 3.3
GO to Jmeter on User choose add then HTTP Authorization Manager
Then add ur url , userid,password
If response type is json then add HTTP Header manager
You can easily use JSON Extractor for authentication inside the auth request to store the token in a variable, then you will just need to use it whenever the token is needed, in order to use that you will need an HTTP header manager using that variable you can follow the screenshots for clear instructions.
JSON Extractor configuration:
HTTP header manager configuration:
In reference to the first answer above, the incorrect encoding problem you mention must be now fixed, as Apache 3.1 does appear to encode the username:password correctly in HTTP Auth Manager
Adding a slight variation of #yurko which uses the username & password from User defined variables. (for Jmeter prior to 3.2)
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
String username = vars.get("USERNAME");
String password = vars.get("PASSWORD");
String combineduserpass = username + ":" + password;
byte[] encodedUsernamePassword = Base64.encodeBase64(combineduserpass.getBytes());
vars.put("base64HeaderValue",new String(encodedUsernamePassword));
Updating good findings from your 2013 answers:
The HTTP4 option also works under current Jmeter version 2.13
after adding HTTP Header Manager row containing:
name="Authorization", value="Basic [base64-encoded user/password string]"
Verified on current host amazon linux having reverse proxy from apache 2.4 to tomcat8; tomcat8 recognized the user credentials instead of throwing 401 status.