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List:       jmeter-user
Subject:    RE: Seeing headers in response
From:       "Karr, David" <david.karr () cacheflow ! com>
Date:       2001-07-18 18:36:01
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Besides general-purpose regexp checking, how about code which processes
specific headers, with foreknowledge of the HTTP 1.1 and 1.0 specifications,
along with "canned" assertions for same?  It's not clear to me exactly what
things could be checked for, but it seems like features like this would be
useful.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stover [mailto:mstover1@apache.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 1:59 PM
To: Karr, David; jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Seeing headers in response


On Wednesday 18 July 2001 00:03, Karr, David wrote:
> Well, it seems to me that you'd want to compare headers (and even content)
> against regular expressions.  You could use either of the two Apache
regexp
> packages.

Heh - way ahead of you here.  Apache's ORO package is in JMeter's lib, and 
I've already written code that extracts links from html strings and matches 
them with test sample input (containing regex's).  I've started work on 
extracting forms for the same purpose.  Assertions are coming up on my list 
of things to do, which is what you're getting at.  I have about a month 
scheduled at work to add various new features into JMeter for our purposes.

Dynamic test sample generation, proxy recording support, and assertion 
testing are all on the list of things to add.  Come the end of August, I 
expect to have all this done.

>
> And on a completely different subject, did you notice that both "Save" and
> "Start" use the same accelerator?  If it were me, I would probably
> rearrange the menus slightly and change "Start" to "Run", but I'm not sure
> what menu they would be under.  You probably also want a toolbar.

Oh, right - good catch.  

-Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Stover [mailto:mstover1@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Seeing headers in response
>
>
> There is code that collects the returned headers - but it uses it
> differently
> than you intend.  It would be simple to modify HTTPSampler to do what you
> want here.  It's a useful enough change in general, that I will probably
do
> it soon.  I'll keep ya'll informed.
>
> BTW, it's an interesting quesiton to me how to differentiate JMeter and
> HttpUnit.  Especially since I am trying to move JMeter in a direction that
> allows it to be useful as a functional tester.  If anyone has any thoughts
> on
> this, I'd like to hear them.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:43, Karr, David wrote:
> > Correction, it appears that the HttpWebResponse class gives me (almost)
> > complete access to the headers.  It loses track of what order headers
> > were presented, which might be a misrepresentation if the response had a
> > duplicate header (which would probably indicate a problem with the
> > server, but that IS what I'm trying to test).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@cacheflow.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 4:27 PM
> > To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Seeing headers in response
> >
> >
> > I'll take a look at it, although at first glance, it doesn't seem like
>
> it's
>
> > designed for this to be easy to do (reading/processing response
headers).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicholas Lesiecki [mailto:nick@eblox.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 4:13 PM
> > To: Karr, David; jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Seeing headers in response
> >
> >
> > Althoug jmeter could be used for this, you might want to investigate
> > HttpUnit, an extention to JUnit that provides functional web-testing
> > capabilities. HttpUnit can be found at http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/
.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@cacheflow.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 3:57 PM
> > To: 'jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> > Subject: Seeing headers in response
> >
> >
> > In the "View Results" listener, I can see the HTML that's returned from
a
> > response.  Is there an easy way to make it so that you can also see the
> > headers in the response?  I'm investigating using JMeter more for
> > functional testing than performance testing (of a web server, not a web
> > application), so I believe that being able to see the returned headers
> > would be useful.
> >
> > I noticed that the "TODO" list had information about "improving
> > visualizers", so I have a feeling this is already being investigated,
but
>
> I
>
> > wanted to pose the question, just in case.
> >
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Mike Stover
mstover1@apache.org

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