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Overview 6. Building an Advanced Web Test Plan

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Subscribe to What's New In this section, you will learn how to create advanced Test Plans to test a
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6.1 Handling User Sessions With URL Rewriting
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Developer (Nightly) Builds If your web application uses URL rewriting rather than cookies to save
session information, then you'll need to do a bit of extra work to test your
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To respond correctly to URL rewriting, JMeter needs to parse the HTML
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received from the server and retrieve the unique session ID. Use the
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appropriate HTTP URL Re-writing Modifier to accomplish this. Simply
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enter the name of your session ID parameter into the modifier, and it will
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find it and add it to each request. If the request already has a value, it will be
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replaced. If "Cache Session Id?" is checked, then the last found session id
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will be saved, and will be used if the previous HTTP sample does not
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contain a session id.
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Download this example . In Figure 1 is shown a test plan using URL
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rewriting. Note that the URL Re-writing modifier is added to the
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SimpleController, thus assuring that it will only affect requests under that
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Figure 1 - Test Tree
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Sponsorship In Figure 2, we see the URL Re-writing modifier GUI, which just has a field
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checkbox for indicating that the session ID should be part of the path
(separated by a ";"), rather than a request parameter

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Figure 2 - Request parameters

6.2 Using a Header Manager

The HTTP Header Manager lets you customize what information JMeter
sends in the HTTP request header. This header includes properties like
"User-Agent", "Pragma", "Referer", etc.

The HTTP Header Manager , like the HTTP Cookie Manager , should
probably be added at the Thread Group level, unless for some reason you
wish to specify different headers for the different HTTP Request objects in
your test.

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