Thank you very much for your replies Sebb. I'll investigate further whether URLs called from within javascript, do bypass the JMeter Proxy; should be easy to do. Will report back results later to the list.
On 7/25/06, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 24/07/06, Jaw Dat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 17:13 +0100, sebb wrote: > > > > > > Why is this the case, and is what i'm trying to do possible > > > in jMeter ? (ie, record all the pages i visit and capture the > > > parameters sent to those pages?) Because this would save me > > > having to collect form inputs by parsing the HTML source of those > > > pages. I hope i'm phrasing my question clearly. > > > > Sounds like the pop-ups are being generated locally by the browser, > > and do not involve any interaction with the server. > > > > The JMeter proxy can only capture requests actually sent to the > server. > > > > Even though the popup is indeed generated by a javascript function, > window.open(URL,...) , this surely results a request sent to the server, > since the URL refers to the jsf to be opened in the popup. So why Agreed. > should this escape the JMeter proxy? What's the workaround? As I said previously - perhaps Javascript does not use the proxy (unlikely) or perhaps you have accidentally filtered out the request. > > Have you set any filters in the proxy? It's easy to accidentally > exclude pages. > > > > Yes. The include filters are : > .*\.jsp > .*\.jsf > .*\.htm > .*\.html > .*\.php > The excludes are : > .*\.jpg > .*\.gif > .*\.png I suggest you try allowing everything through until you have got the script working. > > [Could Javascript can be used to download pages directly from the > > server bypassing the proxy? This would explain what you are seeing, > > but seems a broken design to me.] > > > > Very good question. This is the important question now actually. If it > is the case, then wouldn't this be a problem on the part of JMeter? > In any case, how to overcome this? No, if Javascript bypasses the proxy when it is downloading pages, then that is a feature of Javascript, not JMeter.
