I guess I don't understand.  "Referer" is an HTTP header, no?  I don't know
what "<script.../>" is, but it looks like you need to parse response pages
and then generate additional requests based on parsing the <script> tags?

What is it that a normal browser is doing, that JMeter does not?

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:28 AM
> To: JMeter Developers List
> Subject: Re: HTTP request and referer
> 
> 
> Unfortunatly the HTTP Header Manager is not  a valid solution 
> because it
> does not allow to propagate the querystring that was used in 
> the referer.
> Consider this example:
> 
> 
> display_forum.html?num=1
> -----------------------------------
> <some html tags>
> <script src="/get_forum_thread.jsp"></script>
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> As you can see, the engine need to know which exact referer 
> (the url AND the
> querystring) was used to compute the requested information,  
> ( it means that
> with the referer the engine is able to determine the 
> querystring that was
> used with the html page)
> 
> You cant achieve that with an HTTP Header Manager.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stover, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'JMeter Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:11 PM
> Subject: RE: HTTP request and referer
> 
> 
> > So, you need to specify custom headers in your JMeter 
> scripts.  This can
> be
> > done with the Header Manager.
> >
> > The proxy server, currently, doesn't transmit/save header 
> information.
> > However, it could be modified to do so.  Is that what you'd 
> like to do?
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Christian Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:09 AM
> > > To: JMeter Developers List
> > > Subject: Re: HTTP request and referer
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your answer Mike,
> > >
> > > You can find a "clear" picture of my framework by
> > > http://www.magelo.com/overview.html
> > >
> > > The engine is using the html referer to determine which
> > > comunity made the
> > > call and therefore deliver a custom response for this community.
> > >
> > > A simple example:
> > >
> > > index.html
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > <html>
> > > <body>
> > > <script
> > > 
> src='http://www.magelo.com/components/get_website_info.jsp'></script>
> > >
> > > <script>document.write(website_name);</script>
> > >
> > > </body>
> > > </html
> > > ---------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > if the index.html is hosted on http://nightwatchers.dpn.ch
> > > then when the
> > > browser call the Javascript ressource, the Magelo engine 
> looks at the
> > > referer, find http://nightwatchers.dpn.ch/index.html , 
> since it's a
> > > registered community, it will deliver the required
> > > information for this
> > > community.
> > >
> > > Therefore the website_name will be equal to Nightwatchers.
> > >
> > > At the moment, the HTTP Request "object" in JMeter is not
> > > aware of a referer
> > > attribute, the idea is to add this attribute and when the 
> request is
> > > made,include the referer in the header.
> > >
> > > Then we can modify the Http proxy "recorder" to set the
> > > referer when it
> > > "records" HTTP Request
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Christian Meunier
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Stover, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "'JMeter Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:37 PM
> > > Subject: RE: HTTP request and referer
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "referrer" in this
> > > sense.  Probably
> > > > JMeter doesn't support it, and I don't know of anyone
> > > working on it.  I'd
> > > be
> > > > very interested in understanding more what you mean, and in
> > > helping you
> > > find
> > > > the code that would need to be modified/extended to do it.
> > > >
> > > > -Mike
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Christian Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:34 PM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Subject: HTTP request and referer
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi, my web application have an heavy usage of referers.
> > > > > Inside an html page i call some JSP to tailor some javascript
> > > > > data upon referers using:
> > > > > <script src='/get_info.jsp'></script>
> > > > >
> > > > > I am unable to test my framework with Jmeter because it does
> > > > > not handle referer to my knowledge.
> > > > > I would like to know if someone is working on this before i
> > > > > start to dig in the code.
> > > > >
> > > > > I believe it shouldnt be hard to enhance the HttpRequest
> > > > > class with a referer attribute and let the proxy server set
> > > > > it (or the user via the gui).
> > > > >
> > > > > What do you think of this ?
> > > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > >
> > > > >
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