True, WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol. Information is available
at www.webdav.org. From WebDAV.org:
*What is WebDAV?*
Briefly: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and
Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which
allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web
servers.
This technology is behind MS Web Folders, and many http authoring tools
support. MS has committed to having native webdav (webdav sights mapped
as drives) in XP, but has not delivered yet. Apple's OSX has native
support for it, and Linux has a still maturing webdav file system
(davfs). OpenOffice supports the protocol, as well as nautilus. I
believe many will follow suite. The protocol is described in RFC2518,
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2518.txt). It introduces new HTTP methods
like PROPFIND (get's properties of a file or collection), COPY, MKCOL,
LOCK, UNLOCK, etc. It also defines XML bodies for these requests.
There are extensions to the protocol to provide versioning and searching
of content on a DAV enabled sight. For those who wish to play with WebDAV,
apache's http server provides mod_dav. Very slick, IMHO.
Whether or not it will be a straight forward enhancement to JMeter's
http handling code is unclear to me. I don't know enough about JMeters
internals to say. Again,
we have the understanding of webdav, and some java talent. We'll help where
we can. Let me know what you think.
Thanks
Andy
Mike Stover wrote:
>It surely sounds like an expansion of the HTTP protocol that JMeter doesn't currently
>support.
>Do you have specs on this WebDAV and PROPFIND that a developer could look at? I'm
>sure
>there are multiple people (me included) out there willing and capable of satisfying
>your needs
>for a fairly modest fee.
>
>Alternatively, I'm always willing to give advice and answer questions if you want to
>do it
>yourself.
>
>-Mike
>
>On 13 Aug 2002 at 11:23, Andrew Libby wrote:
>
>
>
>>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I work for a company that has a WebDAV server product. We've been using
>>JMeter to test web applications for a while and are enjoying it much. I
>>could have
>>sworn that I've seen traffic about WebDAV and JMeter before, but I
>>didn't find anything
>>when searching archives on mail-archive.com. So, my question is, can I
>>test WebDAV services
>>with JMeter? I'm not having luck.
>>
>>I've attempted using the proxy and DAVExplorer (has proxy support). The
>>client issues
>>a PROPFIND request to the proxy. The proxy then issues a GET to the
>>DAV server.
>>This only somewhat surprises me because PROPFIND is not a standard HTTP
>>request
>>method. It's introduced by WebDAV. The surprise comes in because it
>>causes the proxy
>>to issues a GET.
>>
>>At any rate, I'm wondering if there are plans for WebDAV support. I'd
>>imagine that
>>it could be a decent amount of (particularly if there is to be support
>>for it in the proxy).
>>
>>Thoughts, information? If the cost is not too high, CommNav is willing
>>to contribute to the
>>effort.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Andy
>>
>>
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