I am trying to create a test plan using jmeter.its for an API Post request, I have a header manager, bodydata, checked for spellings and the syntax seems to be correct. However, Im getting 400 response code with the following error shown in the attached image. Anyone with an idea how I can resolve this? Thank you. the error
Here is the request the request
The user doesn't have to be logged in, i have added a header manager, I have also noticed there header has a cookie value thats hard coded but it appears to be the same in every request. In the UI the API request returns 200 and thats what im expecting with the Jmeter script.
In its current form the question cannot be answered comprehensively.
HTTP Status Code 400 means that
The 400 (Bad Request) status code indicates that the server cannot or
will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be
a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request
message framing, or deceptive request routing).
Check that your ${site} and ${csVersion} variables have their respective values using Debug Sampler and View Results Tree listener combination
Cross check headers sent by JMeter and by the "UI", the most important is Content-Type
Use a sniffer tool like Wireshark of Fiddler and capture the requests which are being sent by JMeter and the "UI", the requests must be exactly the same apart from dynamic parameters which need to be correlated
The issues was being caused by an anti-forgery cookie which was hard coded in the request.I used a regex to extract the value from a previous request and used a variable value from the regex to make sure the same value is being passed on to the request that was failing.
i recorded script with jmeter for 4 transactions.launch, logon, continue, logoff. i am seeing redirecting error for continue transaction and for that i am not seeing any response for that all request. But i am seeing response data in jmeter for all request for continue transaction. i have id token value and that i want to substitute for the next request as post.
Continue transaction
request..response (i am seeing response data with ID_token in jmeter but not in browser)
request (ID_Token as posting here) - Need to get final response for continue transaction.
As per Redirections in HTTP guide:
In HTTP, redirection is triggered by a server sending a special redirect response to a request. Redirect responses have status codes that start with 3, and a Location header holding the URL to redirect to.
As per RFC 2616 the response body is not required for 3xx redirect responses, moreover for 304 Not Modified status it's even forbidden so it's absolutely fine to not to have response body for 3xx status codes as long as you have Location header which points you to the next page.
Just make sure that JMeter sends the same requests and they're treated in the same manner by the server as requests from the real browser by comparing request flow in your browser developer tools and the ones which are sent by JMeter. In case of mismatch play with Redirect automatically and Follow redirects checkboxes in HTTP Request sampler or in HTTP Request Defaults configuration element:
is there any way I can access/get the fields of a HTML Form
passed with POST (method=POST) from the invoked page (action="xpage2.html")
using only filesystem (file:///xpage1.html -> no HTTP server)
Basically,,, how do I access the form information
that usually is passed in the HTTP headers section
I know I can do this with localStorage, sessionStorage or even a cookie---
but that is not what I want...
HTML page pass a Form with POST to next page without HTTP server
No.
There are no client-side mechanisms to read POSTed data.
I am writing a http handler for a server and I am looking directly at the http requests when they come in from different clients. I can easily deal with normal http requests. The problem occurs when I get a GET or POST request. I do not know how to access the data from the GET or the POST therefore I cannot continue. Could someone please point me in the direction of some where which deals with the issue on how to access the data. Thanks in advance.
Answer:
to do this:
In a GET request the data comes in the URL itself therefore just parse the URL from the HTTP request and look for the question mark and the arguments.
For a POST request there are 2 different ways however the main one means that the arguments are put in the body of the request like this:
q=hello&v=world
The length is specified in the request as well so if you need it is under Content-Length:
I'd like to know if the POST method on HTTP sends data as a QueryString, or if it use a special structure to pass the data to the server.
In fact, when I analyze the communication with POST method from client to server (with Fiddler for example), I don't see any QueryString, but a Form Body context with the name/value pairs.
The best way to visualize this is to use a packet analyzer like Wireshark and follow the TCP stream. HTTP simply uses TCP to send a stream of data starting with a few lines of HTTP headers. Often this data is easy to read because it consists of HTML, CSS, or XML, but it can be any type of data that gets transfered over the internet (Executables, Images, Video, etc).
For a GET request, your computer requests a specific URL and the web server usually responds with a 200 status code and the the content of the webpage is sent directly after the HTTP response headers. This content is the same content you would see if you viewed the source of the webpage in your browser. The query string you mentioned is just part of the URL and gets included in the HTTP GET request header that your computer sends to the web server. Below is an example of an HTTP GET request to http://accel91.citrix.com:8000/OA_HTML/OALogout.jsp?menu=Y, followed by a 302 redirect response from the server. Some of the HTTP Headers are wrapped due to the size of the viewing window (these really only take one line each), and the 302 redirect includes a simple HTML webpage with a link to the redirected webpage (Most browsers will automatically redirect any 302 response to the URL listed in the Location header instead of displaying the HTML response):
For a POST request, you may still have a query string, but this is uncommon and does not have anything to do with the data that you are POSTing. Instead, the data is included directly after the HTTP headers that your browser sends to the server, similar to the 200 response that the web server uses to respond to a GET request. In the case of POSTing a simple web form this data is encoded using the same URL encoding that a query string uses, but if you are using a SOAP web service it could also be encoded using a multi-part MIME format and XML data.
For example here is what an HTTP POST to an XML based SOAP web service located at http://192.168.24.23:8090/msh looks like in Wireshark Follow TCP Stream:
Post uses the message body to send the information back to the server, as opposed to Get, which uses the query string (everything after the question mark). It is possible to send both a Get query string and a Post message body in the same request, but that can get a bit confusing so is best avoided.
Generally, best practice dictates that you use Get when you want to retrieve data, and Post when you want to alter it. (These rules aren't set in stone, the specs don't forbid altering data with Get, but it's generally avoided on the grounds that you don't want people making changes just by clicking a link or typing a URL)
Conversely, you can use Post to retrieve data without changing it, but using Get means you can bookmark the page, or share the URL with other people, things you couldn't do if you'd used Post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GET_%28HTTP%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_%28HTTP%29
As for the actual format of the data sent in the message body, that's entirely up to the sender and is specified with the Content-Type header. If not specified, the default content-type for HTML forms is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which means the server will expect the post body to be a string encoded in a similar manner to a GET query string. However this can't be depended on in all cases. RFC2616 says the following on the Content-Type header:
Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a
Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If
and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the
recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its
content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the
resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD
treat it as type "application/octet-stream".
A POST request can include a query string, however normally it doesn't - a standard HTML form with a POST action will not normally include a query string for example.
GET will send the data as a querystring, but POST will not. Rather it will send it in the body of the request.
If your post try to reach the following URL
mypage.php?id=1
you will have the POST data but also GET data.