Hello, I'm trying to use Jmeter to stress test a intermediary proxy to a site, actually it will be used for many sites. To test it I need to move around the site and I was hoping to use the HTML Link Parser to spider the site and leave the clients/threads to work there way around. This allows me to easily plug in other sites to test.
In searching I found a guide to doing this in the old version of Jmeter on the old user guide. There is also a section about spidering under the help documentation. It suggest putting in .* for path and domain. I tried this with a Default HTTP containing the domain/host. An HTTP Request with .* and a Link Parser but from my log it is just trying to request the page "host/.*" which doesn't work. There was only so many ways I could arrange these 3 things and now I'm out of ideas. Am I missing something on this setup?
From the help
"Spidering Example Consider a simple example: let's say you wanted JMeter to "spider" through your site, hitting link after link parsed from the HTML returned from your server (this is not actually the most useful thing to do, but it serves as a good example). You would create a Simple Controller , and add the "HTML Link Parser" to it. Then, create an HTTP Request, and set the domain to ".*", and the path likewise. This will cause your test sample to match with any link found on the returned pages. If you wanted to restrict the spidering to a particular domain, then change the domain value to the one you want. Then, only links to that domain will be followed." Thanks for any help cheers Bob
