Heh... well, I was interested in using it primarily as a link/site stability checker looking for error 500s, 404s and the like. Without going into detail, let's just say I can't rely on the error logs for this info.
So I did a little search and found the Webbot over on the W3C site. It's free, based on the open libwww library and has a command line binary for Win32. Webbot acts as a link checker and seems to do a pretty reasonable job at it. But it's no JMeter. It lacks a nice GUI, graphing functions, etc. So, for all of us spiderin' fools, I'd suggest grabbing webbot for the time being, but perhaps adding a spidering toolkit to JMeter isn't a half bad idea. Time is an issue for me as well, but I'd be willing to take a crack at it if I found some. Rob Z. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Stover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:16 AM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: Link Parser It depends on what is on that second page that is returned. If there are other links on it with a different pattern, then maybe a third HTTP Request with an HTML Link Parser and different regex's would work. Otherwise I'd say just loop continuously, loading the home page, loading a random link from it, load home page, random link, ...etc. Really, what ya'll spiderin' fools ought to do is make yourselves a new "spidering" toolkit that saves a stack of all links parsed, and loops through them all till there are no more, at which point it breaks out of the loop. It really wouldn't be that hard to do - make a loop controller extension that ends the loop on error condition, and make an extension to the HTML Link Parser that creates a stack of all links parsed, and changes HTTP Requests with each link in turn to match. I'll help and answer questions, but it's not something I'm going to work on personally anytime soon, because I've got too much else to do and it's not a high priority for me. Although, if enough of you wanted this, I suppose that would change. Damn I'm easy :-\ -Mike On 5 Sep 2002 at 11:03, Andrea Trasatti wrote: > Hello, > this idea of the link parser used as a spider is very good, I would say > GREAT. > I am trying to apply it to my project and I have a little problem, but I'm sure there's a > solution, I just can't find it now and by myself. > > I created a project JUST like Zazueta and I have the same setup. > What happens is that it loads the home page and the first link but then stops. > My site is written in PHP and EVERY page is > http://mysite/index.php?action=<something> > > How should I do to make JMeter browse all the site? Use a Loop controller? > > Thanks, > Andrea > > On 4 Sep 2002 at 10:29, Zazueta, Robert wrote: > > > Hey y'all. New to the list. I just went through the archives and found most > > of the answer I was lookinf for in regards to using the link parser as part > > of a spidering tool (I actually *do* see some use to doing this for our > > site). Everything is more or less copasetic except for one thing: it doesn't > > seem to like regular expressions in the path of the HTTP Request. > > > > Here's what I'm using: > > JDK 1.3.1 > > JMeter 1.7.3 > > Windows 2000 > > > > Here's how it's set up: > > > > Root > > Test Plan > > Thread Group > > HTTP Request (Domain: my-machine, Port: 5000 Path: > > /) > > Simple Controller > > HTTP HTML Link Parser > > HTTP Request (Domain: my-machine, Port: 5000 > > Path: .*) > > Constant Timer (3000ms) > > View Results Tree > > HTTP Cookie Manager > > WorkBench > > > > The results tree show just fine for the first HTML Request. For the second > > one, though, the request data is "http://my-machine:5000/.*"; and the HTTP > > Response code is a Non HTTP Response Code. The HTTP response Message is -- > > you guessed it -- a Non HTTP response message. > > > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks! > > > > Rob Z. > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Michael Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: mstover_ya ICQ: 152975688 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
