2008/5/7 John Pulles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list, > > I want to use JMeter to submit a form with has the default values already > filled in; in this case it should be sufficient to press the 'submit' > button, but I don't know what the JMeter equivalent of that action is. > What I can think of is a difficult way: > > - a http request sampler to GET request the form > - regular expression extractor to extract the values of the form fields > - a http request sampler to POST the form with the extracted values
The GET and POST are both required; it's what the browser would have to do. The browser would also do the equivalent of extracting the values. JMeter does not support automatic form filling, so either you will have to use a regex, or you can use the JMeter proxy to record a browser doing the work. This will create the necessary parameters in the POST request, and will work fine as long as the values and names don't change. If the values or names change regularly, then you will need to use the regex method. [I believe some servers generate variable names for parameters, perhaps to hinder automated access] > Can someone please suggest an easier way for handling pages with forms? > > Regards, > John > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
