I'm not a great expert, just an average user, but *I* can't see anything in the url that I would expect to baulk webtest. (I think) the key here is that your url is immediately redirected by the server to another page yes? hence the 302, which is handled without notification to the user by the average browser. But webtest parks at the 302 (correctly because it is the honest truth!) and doesn't process the redirect and further? So what you want to do is nudge it on the next step down the track, which a normal browser would do silently, and process the 302 redirect's target page. No *I* don't know how to do this offhand, but hopefully we've clarified your problem and requirement (if not please correct this description!) and I imagine one of the gurus will come online sometime in the next few hours and either toss a solution at you or declare it a shortfall. No under no circumstances is webtest intended to be useable only by java coders, though it is perhaps starting to rely on people being able to slip in snippets of groovy lately where in the (distant) past it was all declarative xml. How are those icebergs going over there? Keep them over there won't you, we don't want them sailing up the Brisbane river!
Rob

on 17/11/06 08:50 Charlie Kuharski said the following:
Reaching via a browser is fine. I can see it also. Know that WebTest is build upon the HtmlUnit's API. As far as being reachable via HtmlUnit, this is only a guess, but I'm guessing the URL is passed through to be used by HtmlUnit. So I'm guess it's the culprit. There is a slight chance it's WebTest mangling the name somehow, but I doubt it. Wouldn't know for sure until someone looks at the source.
Try using the IP address instead.

John and Pip wrote:
Hi Charlie,

Thanks for your response.

Do you mean you couldn't reach https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do from a browser or that you think WebTest believes it is not reachable? This is the main public URL of the Air New Zealand flight booking engine, and we have a screen up in the office showing bookings coming through every minute!

re testing with HTMLUnit: I'm not a java programmer - just a tester, trying to figure out whether I need to be a java programmer to use WebTest!

Thanks for the hint re version number. I see this is R_1389. In fact to my embarrassment I see this even appears in my email below!

regards,
         John

On 11/17/06, *Charlie Kuharski* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    Your host is not reachable.  I'm guessing it HtmlUnit.  Try using
    something without the "...co.nz". You could try and test with
    HtmlUnit.
    An ugly was to discover the version is to

    1) replace your steps with this only:
            <verifyTitle
              description="we should see the login title"
              text="Login Page" />

    2) you should see something like:
    C:\test\Translink\gtest1.xml:12: Canoo Webtest: R_1393.
    Test failed.
    Exception raised:
    com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepExecutionException: No current
    response available! Is previous invoke miss
    itle at C:\test\Translink\gtest1.xml:30:  with (description="we
    should see the login title", taskName="verifyTitle", text
    anoo.webtest.engine.StepExecutionException: No current response
    available! Is previous invoke missing?, Step: VerifyTitle
    nk\gtest1.xml:30:  with (description="we should see the login
    title", taskName="verifyTitle", text="Login Page")

    Good luck.


    John and Pip wrote:

    Hi,

    I have a test that is failing to follow a 302 error. I've
    searched the archives and played around trying to enable
    redirects but nothing seems to work.

    Below is the stripped-down test (just one invoke) and the
    output. This is a publicly available page so you can hit
    
https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do
    from either IE or Firefox so I'm hoping someone can help me
    figure out how to hit this page from WebTest! Note that I've
    tried an internal page that is http rather than https and get
    the same problem so it isn't related to SSL.

    I am using Java 1.5.0.6 <http://1.5.0.6>, HTMLUnit 1.10 and
    WebTest R_1393 (I think! How can I verify this?).

    Regards,

            John

    <?xml version="1.0"?>

    <!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "WebTest.dtd">

    <project name="OLH" basedir="." default="main">

        <property name="webtest.home" location="..\.."/>

        <import file="${webtest.home}/lib/taskdef.xml"/>

        <target name="main">

                <webtest name="ISIS SFF NZ Search">

                            <steps>

                                                    <invoke
    description="ISIS SFF NZ search page" url="
    
https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do";
/>
                                        </steps>

                            </webtest>

                </target>

    </project>

    Here is the output:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    <summary Implementation-Title="Canoo Webtest"
    Implementation-Version="R_1389">

        <testresult endtime="Fri Nov 17 09:25:42 NZDT 2006"

            location="F:\WebTest\doc\ISIS\tempTest.xml:7: "
    starttime="Fri Nov 17 09:25:40 NZDT 2006"

            successful="no" testspecname="ISIS SFF NZ Search">

            <config>

                [snipped because I give the full URL below – get
    same result if set up config properly including port 443]

            </config>

            <results>

                <step>

                    <parameter name="description" value="ISIS SFF NZ
    search page"/>

                    <parameter name="method" value="GET"/>

                    <parameter name="resultFilename"
    value="response_1163708742276_invoke.html"/>

                    <parameter name="taskName" value="invoke"/>

                    <parameter name="url"
    
value="https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do
    
<https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do>"/>


                    <result>

                        <failed duration="1469"/>

                    </result>

                    <htmlparser>

                        <error col="1" line="1" url="
    
https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do";>Empty
    document.</error>

                    </htmlparser>

                </step>

                <failure
    message="com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepFailedException:
    Step[invoke &quot;ISIS SFF NZ search page&quot; (1/1)]: HTTP
    error 302, at: invoke, Step: InvokePage at
    F:\WebTest\doc\ISIS\tempTest.xml:9:  with
    (description=&quot;ISIS SFF NZ search page&quot;,
    method=&quot;GET&quot;,
    resultFilename=&quot;response_1163708742276_invoke.html&quot;,
    taskName=&quot;invoke&quot;,
    
url=&quot;https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do&quot
    
<https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/isbook_en_NZ/book/initSearchForFlights.do&quot>;)"/>

            </results>

        </testresult>

    </summary>


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