Hi list, here is a summary of what caused / solved my problem as posted on 02-04-22. I'd like to thank Mike Stover forh elping me along. He was able to eliminate some of the possibilities that I as a newbie couldn't, and so narrowed the search decisively.
1. The fact that a few items were not available in 'my' JMeter GUI as in the documentation made me doubt I had the right version, so I installed 'a few' builds, which made everything more confusing and robbed me of some more items (Controls, I'll call them). There is really not much difference between the release and the nightlies, Mike assured me. 3. The $CLASSPATH which is passed to the JVM on startup included XML-relevant JAR-Files from my class path. Placing 'my' class path at the end of the Class path passed to JMeter helped. After that, all the control elements from the documentation were available in the GUI. 2. HTMLLinkParser: I had overlooked the part in the documentation which said that for a link 'spider', you must add .* to the domain AND the path, not just to one of both... Even with everything working, this can happen, as Mike states that: > The Link Parser will send the literal string if it doesn't find a match in > the previous HTML page returned from the server. This happens if, for > example, there is no previous page (ie, if the dynamic test sample is the > first sample in your test). Also, it will happen if there are arguments or > path information that doesn't match up with anything on the page. 3. Parameter Mask: I hadn't understood what it does. Explanation of the fields available there (Mike again): > The prefix field is what JMeter will prefix to your value, before adding 1, > 2, 3... etc. Everything's working now, my boss is pleased with me again, thanx!-) Tanya > [...] > My ThreadGroup looks like this: > | HTTPRequestDefaults > | HTTPCookieManager > | HTTPRequest (static html, works) > | > | HTTPRequest (static searchform, works > > response is the > search results list (lots > of <a href>'s) > > | HTTPModification Controller (for the modification of the > | searchform, > > this WORKS) > > | HTML Parameter Mask (Name, ID-Prefix = .* (I don't > > understand this usage, > and didn't find the > documentation. > > | HTTP Request Added Parameters: "LTX=searchword" > > "sid=.*" This works. response > is the search results list (lots of <a href>'s) > > | HTTPModification Controller (follow a random link from the > | results page... > > this DOES'NT WORK) > > | HTML Parameter Mask (Name, ID-Prefix = .* (I don't > > understand this usage, > and didn't find the > documentation. > > | HTTP Request path=.* > > With this last HTTPRequest, i try to follow any link to a detailed view > of this special search result, but I get an IOException. > > Assuming JMeter is probably cleverer than I, I tried to add a HTTP > Proxy to the workbench, but it isn't in the menu.... > > So, I'm very frustrated and it seems that nobody in the mailing > list has the same problem... I would be very greatful if anyone could > help me out of this. > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
