Just to be clear on this, currently NTLM authentication is not supported by
JMeter?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:46 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 18 April 2012 09:59, iyerbalaji <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am testing a web application.
> >
> > Application Description:
> > • The application uses NTLM V2 authentication.
> > • It’s hosted on IIS 7.5.
> >
> > Scenario :
> > • On entering the URL,the application accepts the NTLM (domain)
> credentials
> > without prompting for credentials and authenticates the user i.e. the
> user
> > is not providing the credentials here.
> > • I am able to capture the HTTP request using (JAVA) HTTP Sampler but not
> > with HTTPClient 3.1 or HTTPClient 4.
> >
> > 1st Method:
> >
> > Observations:
> > • When the scenario is replayed it works properly but the only challenge
> > here is to provide user credentials.There is no way to provide
> credentials.
> > • It uses the same credentials with which the recording was done.
> > • And Load test would require me to supply multiple/different credentials
> > • I have not used HTTP AUTH Manager so far.
> > • Now, when HTTP Auth Manager is used in conjunction with (JAVA) HTTP
> > Sampler,the credentials supplied in HTTP Authorization Manager has no
> > effect. i.e. irrespective of the login credentials supplied in"HTTP
> > Authorization Manager" it is logging with the user credentials with which
> > the recording was done.
> >
> > Note: The request sent does not contain NTLM Auth(challenge) specific
> > headers under REQUEST Headers of each request.
> >
> > Ultimately,there is no way to provide different credentials with this
> > approach.
> >
> > 2nd Method:
> >
> > Since,HTTP Client (3.1 or 4) does not capture the requests while
> recording,I
> > constructed the application requests manually using HTTP client (3.1 & 4)
> > and supplied the credentials using HTTP Auth Manager.
> >
> > Observations:
> > • Now,when replayed the script,the request sent contains NTLM
> > Auth(challenge) specific headers under REQUEST Headers of each request.
> > • But the request fails with 401 error code [401 - Unauthorized: Access
> is
> > denied due to invalid credentials].It does not authorize the user with
> the
> > credentials provided in HTTP Authorization Manager but it understands
> NTLM
> > challenge response.
> >
> > Challenges:
> > • With Java HTTP Sampler i am not able to login with multiple credentials
> > even though the requests is sent successfully.It does not use the
> > credentials provided in HTTP Auth Manager.
> > • With HTTP Client sampler,the request fails with 401-Unauthorized error
> > code with the credentials provided in HTTP Auth Manager.
> >
> > Is there a way to send the requests successfully and also provide
> different
> > credentials to log in with either of the samplers?
> >
> > Appreciate your help in this regard.
>
> I don't think there's any way round this, sorry.
>
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