I am new with JMeter. I am using apache jmeter 5.2 with Java 8. I want to send cookie data in a field name "Cookie" in the request header of a post request at the time of logging in a user to a website. The request header will like the following picture :
First of all, I am sending a get request to the server and holding cookie data using regular expression extractor and using the value in request header as a parameter named "Cookie". But unfortunately JMeter doesn't add that parameter with the request header. I have also used HTTP Cookie Manager. But I am getting cookie data in request body, but not in request headers.
I have already seen the following posts.
How to generate a cookie and send it in a request in Jmeter
CookieManager manager = sampler.getCookieManager();
Cookie cookie = new Cookie("JSESSIONID",vars.get("jSessionId"),"${serveraddress}",false,0);
manager.add(cookie);
Try with the above code in Pre-Processor of the request.
Edit: Improve the Format
After trying all the methods on google and not working, I just figured that I can do some tricks on it.
Step 1. Create a header manager and firstly add a header you want. Then in this value column, you just put: "Cookie: your cookie value" immediately after its value. Then save your project. Please refer to my figure below.
header setting
Step 2. Open your project (.jml) with text editor and find the content for your header manager. You can find the value for your header in 'stringProp name="Header.value"'. Type a enter before "Cookie: your cookie value" and delete all blanks between the previous value and cookie. Save your .jml with Ctrl +S and reopen your jml with Jmeter and test it.
It should work!
jml setting
result
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I'm trying to make a request to the Walmart API here.
https://walmart.io/docs/affiliate/product-lookup
Here are the steps I'm following.
I create my application here on Walmart and uploaded my public key. I created my keys following these instructions on Mac.
https://walmart.io/key-tutorial
I followed this code to generate my signature.
https://walmart.io/docs/affiliate/onboarding-guide
I plug in all these values into the API explorer, but I keep getting the same error.
Is there an extra step I'm missing?
The 401 Unauthorized is an HTTP status code error that represents the request sent by the client to the server lacks valid authentication
Seems like one of the mandatory header params is missing while consuming api.
Request to please kindly cross check whether all of the mandatory header params are there as part of request.
We should have these below mentioned mandatory header params as part of the request.
One or more header params might be missing in the req.
WM_CONSUMER.ID
WM_SEC.KEY_VERSION
WM_CONSUMER.INTIMESTAMP
WM_SEC.AUTH_SIGNATURE
we need all of the header params and we can generate using below mentioned links.
Generating Auth Signature (WM_CONSUMER.INTIMESTAMP, WM_SEC.AUTH_SIGNATURE)
We can generate Auth Signature by using below mentioned link.
We will have to run below mentioned sample code to generate Auth Signature as seen below. This is going to generate timestamp and valid Auth Signature to consume APIs.
Time Stamp will be valid for couple of mins only. If it expires, we will have to regenerate the same
https://www.walmart.io/docs/affiliate/onboarding-guide
Generating consumer ID (WM_CONSUMER_ID)
Request to please kindly follow below steps to generate consumer ID
Create an account on Walmart IO platform - https://walmart.io by clicking on the user icon just before the search box.
Login to the account and accept "Terms of Use"
Click on "Create Your Application" to create a new application and fill in appropriate details.
Use this tutorial to generate two sets of public/private keys - https://walmart.io/key-tutorial
One set will be used for production.
Other set will be used for stage.
Upload both public keys using - https://walmart.io/key-upload?app_name=<your app name>
Consumer ID will be generated for both sets for prod and stage which can be seen on the dashboard - https://walmart.io/dashboard.
Regards,
Firdos
IOSupport
I have an Angular app with a route say /register which can be accessible on http://xyc.com/register
I want to make a GET call to this url and pass a header in that request.
Now, I want my angular app to be able to read header from the request and store it in cookie.
I am not sure where and how to retrieve the header from the request in my Angular app? Should I ideally create an interceptor for this and do request.headers to get the header I want? I tried it like this:
export class SomeInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {
intercept(request: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
console.log("headers = " + JSON.stringify(request.headers));
...
...
}
}
Not sure if this is the right approach?
Then, I wanted to test (from browser) if the header is retrieved properly by sending a GET request to the URL and seeing if the header prints using console.log. For this I tried to use a JSP to send a GET request to this URL (along with the header) in order to test if the header is retrieved correctly in my Angular app. But I am not sure how to do it.
In my JSP code, I tried the following:
response.setHeader("myHeader", "test-header");
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY);
response.setHeader("Location", "http://xyc.com/register");
However, I don't see my header printed. Not sure if my approach to read the header is wrong or the way I am testing is wrong. Any help?
Cookie ideally is way for server to send data to browser to keep track of anything that server wants to remember. E.g. Authentication token or anything that can track session of user. What you are trying to do is other way round. I would have ideally set cookie as a part of response from server than actually reading at browser and setting it there. Ideally in most of the cases browser too does not need to explicitly set, as once set it becomes a part of every request that is send.
I invoke an authentication request in order receive a session id :
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<S:Body>
<loginResponse xmlns="urn:company" xmlns:ns2="urn:company">
<result>
<sessionId>2342422342.dc8bizxsfapi03</sessionId>
<msUntilPwdExpiration>2342342342342353452323</msUntilPwdExpiration>
</result>
</loginResponse>
</S:Body>
</S:Envelope>
In the docs for the Soap API that I'm using it states :
A successful login will return a
session ID as an HTTP Cookie. This cookie must be passed back to all subsequent HTTP
Requests that invoke API operations in order to authenticate.
How is the session id passed to the next http reqeust as this is not described ?
I'm assuming I need to embed the session ID within an XML tag as part of the subsequesnt request but this should be detailed in the API or is there a standard mechanism I can use ?
The API documentation you reference states that the service will set a cookie on the response that needs to be set on any subsequent request. Cookies are sent via HTTP headers, not the body of of the request/response, and are commonly used to establish and maintain sessions. The underlying HTTP client library the web service framework uses is well equipped to handle this for you, but because SOAP web services are designed to be stateless, you usually have to ask the framework if you want it to maintain sessions. When you enable this functionality, it simply means the framework will send any cookies back to the server that the server sends to it, which is precisely what your SOAP API documentation is asking that you do.
To enable this functionality in jax-ws, you set BindingProvider.SESSION_MAINTAIN_PROPERTY to true on the RequestContext. This article gives an example and more details.
Yes, that is a popular mechanism.
As the API states the session key was returned in the Cookie (it is a HTTP header). What is in a response body is only a repetition of the session key (I hope so). You need to extract the cookie from HTTP headers. If you are using the JAX-WS you may enable the session awareness using BindingProvider.SESSION_MAINTAIN_PROPERTY:
Hello proxy = new HelloService().getHelloPort();
((BindingProvider)proxy).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.SESSION_MAINTAIN_PROPERTY,true);
String result = proxy.getMessage();
System.out.println(result);
If not, then try to find how to get and set the HTTP headers using your web services framework.
There are multiple ways you can extract the session id.
From the xml you have provided it seems the session id is in the xml response. If this is the case the you can use the method suggested by olyv and extract the session id from the xml response.
As lakshman suggest you could use groovy to parse the session id
from the xml response.
The below code may be of help.
def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context )
def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("Properties#response")
log.info holder.getNodeValue("//sessionId")
log.info holder['//sessionId']
This code and its explanation is available at Are you a hot cup? blog.
Another option using groovy is to extract the cookie from the header and store it in a property. The value of this property will be set in each request by creating a header property called cookie and assigning the session id to it. You'll have to verify the property name and value format by looking at the raw response/request.
try this code for example
//in script assertion
String message_size = messageExchange.responseHeaders["session-id"] /or whatever if the cookie name
or
def state = context.getProperty( com.eviware.soapui.model.testsuite.TestRunContext.HTTP_STATE_PROPERTY )
assert state != null : "Missing HttpState.. Try to set 'Maintain HTTP session' in test case options"
def cookies = state.cookies
Above code sample is from http://forum.soapui.org/viewtopic.php?t=3066#p10957
Lastly, there is a test case level option to maintain http session, if you select this option you wouldn't have to worry about extracting the session id. The soapUI guide on this says..
For example, soapUI uses this internally to store an HttpState object in the context when the "Maintain HTTP Session" option has been selected in the TestCase Options dialog.
link to the above line: http://www.soapui.org/Functional-Testing/testcase-execution.html
API description you have attached points out that all you need to do is to manage your cookies correctly.
Successful login response will have the cookie with session ID (also duplicated as a <sessionId>xxxx</sessionId> element in the response).
All you have to do is to include this cookie in all subsequent calls to this API.
Depending on your HTTP/SOAP client these things just need setting up and the client simply follows the contract of HTTP Cookie standard, so it receives cookies, stores them for as long as they are valid, and passes them with all subsequent requests made to the same URI.
If you are using SoapUI, just add session management to your test case as per the picture below:
If that is not enough and you want to pop the bonnet up and see what is what see this blog
HTH
There is HTTP Header Manager component, which allows to set some HTTP headers when HTTP Sampler is used.
I need to intercept response header with certain name, remember it in some variable and use the saved value in all requests (override existing values, for example I recorded 100500 requests with HTTP Proxy and don't want to alter all requests with providing the variable expression).
So the flow is something like below:
send N requests to server
in some response there is the header X
send M requests
send request with saved value of header X
in some response value of header X changes, and subsequent requests with header X will use the new saved value
Shall I create some controller for such behavior or there is something ready-to-use? didn't spot it yet.
The Regular Expression Extractor is your friend. You can tell it to parse the headers as well as the body.
I have found a strange behaviour (strange for me, a novice :D) in my project.
Basicly after an action I create or update a cookie (if it exists or not) and send it to the client. The strange thing is that in the jsp I can read the cookie ONLY when I update its value (and I get the updated value, not the old one) but not the first time, when I create it (I can see the cookie using a browser tool but seems that the jsp can't read it).
Is this a normal behaviour? If yes, what do you suggest to do in order to have the cookie information available also at the first time?
Thanks very much!
Roberto
If you create or update a cookie, it will be stored in the response header. If you request a cookie, it will be requested from the request header.
I think your problem is that you're forwarding the same request from servlet to JSP and that you expect that the new cookie is already available in the request header. This is not true. The new cookie is only available in the subsequent requests.
You have 2 options:
Redirect to JSP. A redirect will create a new request.
Store the data of interest as request attribute and let EL in JSP access it.
By the way, I saw in one of your comments that you're using plain Java code to read cookies in a JSP. I would only say that using scriptlets in JSP is a bad practice. You can access cookie values easily in EL as follows:
${cookie.cookiename.value}
[Edit] oh my, now I see that this is an old topic. Hopefully my effors weren't all for nothing :/
Cookies are stored on client, and so if the response doesn't gets to the client yet, its value is not updated, but it should be available on the next requests.
cookies are used to identify clients when they send you any requests. here's what you are doing when you set the cookie up. you are sending the cookie to the client along with response. And when that client send his next request the cookie that you set comes along with it. so, in the jsp page where you are setting up the cookie, you don't have a request from the client with cookie! so you can't read it. but what you can do like what jerjer has said above. (i.e use a temp and store cookie's value in it and don't try to retrieve cookie. just read the temp value). And i see you say you can read the cookie only when you update. You will be able to read cookie's value from future reqests after cookie is set even if you don't update it. Hope this helps.