Thanks very much for the help - I've gotten a lot farther as a result of your 
assistance (and learned a few things in the process). 
1. I had not used Fiddler before, but I suspect I will be using it a lot more 
going forward. Nice tool.
2. After trying a few other parameters I observed as differences in Fiddler, I 
checked the "Use multipart/form data" option. That resolved a number of 
problems and got me all the way up to the Logout.

I'm still getting stuck on the Logout action, but I will open that as a 
separate issue if I can't get anywhere with my troubleshooting.

Thanks again!
Kurt



-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Rancati [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2016 4:33 AM
To: JMeter Users List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 500 Server Error occurs only in JMeter, same POST is successful 
when submitted manually

Hello,

some generic troubleshooting:
- do you have access to the server logs, to compare the successful request and 
the one that generates the 500 Server Error?
- you could try to intercept the two outgoing requests, with a proxy such as 
Webscarab or Fiddler, then compare them
- check/uncheck the "Use multipart/form data" option

Info you could provide to the mailing list:
- version of Jmeter and jdk/jre
- implementation used in your http sampler (3.1, 4, java)

best regards
Ivan

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Hohmann, Kurt D <[email protected]>
wrote:

> In my script, I'm using a JSESSIONID instead of a cookie; the 
> JSESSIONID is extracted using a HTTP URL Re-writing Modifier and I can 
> confirm that the correct value (the one which appears in the response 
> data from the login page) is being applied in the Request.
> e.g. POST https://qa67.ososinfo.org:446/Staff/staffdetail.xhtml;
> JSESSIONID=0655ca5420354753ae413984d34cfc27
>
> I'm also using a VIEWSTATE, which I'm extracting prior to running the 
> remainder of the test steps by using a Regular Expression Extractor 
> and setting the resulting variable as a parameter in the HTTP Request, 
> e.g. javax.faces.ViewState=8d2%2BgOIseczB2FWSo74DqQfkmiYVaK73
> D8bnLTNWCx%2FB8EtE
>
> The problem is that I'm hitting a Response code: 500 | Response message:
> Internal Server Error every time I attempt a post with all of the 
> applicable data.
>
> I tried running through the steps manually in a Firefox browser. I 
> copied the contents of the Request tab from the failing page into a 
> REST client, logged in using a separate tab of the same browser and 
> grabbed the appropriate JSESSIONID and VIEWSTATE information, then 
> posted with that info in place - and the manual post was successful.
>
> Am I missing something? Is JMeter requiring something to accomplish 
> this POST that a I'm not seeing in a manual attempt?
>
> Happy to share any/all of what I'm seeing if it might be helpful in 
> helping to troubleshoot.
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt
>

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