Hello, I suspect the target website may be using Brotli compression so you're facing: - https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62842
This bug is fixed in nightly build, which you can download from here: - https://ci.apache.org/projects/jmeter/nightlies/ Can you give us some feedback ? If issue persists, please enable in log4j2.xml this row and record the problematic request : <Logger name="org.apache.http" level="debug" /> Or provide a HAR recording using Chrome. Thanks Regards @philmdot Co-author of https://leanpub.com/master-jmeter-from-load-test-to-devops On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 9:27 PM Alexander Boitsev <a.boit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed an unexpected behavior when recording a mobile > application traffic in JMeter. I have confirmed it in almost all > versions - starting from 2.13 to the latest trunk code. > > I am recording traffic from a mobile app (iOS in my case) and in POST > requests (JSON) I see some unreadable data which is confirmed to be a > not unzipped payload. > > I have tried recording with Charles Proxy and it shows JSON properly. So > it is JMeter who processes something incorrectly in my case. > > Any ideas why this might happen? Never had such problems with mobile > apps before. > > Thank you, > Alexander > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.69454/3.16455>