From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
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Adding HTTP managers - Apache JMeter Tutorial
From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
Adding HTTP managers
- [Instructor] Running a load test against a website means that you sometimes need to manage and handle different aspects of that website such as cookies and the cache that the browser would normally take care of. As JMeter isn't a web browser, there can be times when I'll need to give it a helping hand with things like this. I can do this with HTTP Managers. Right-clicking on my Test Plan reveals Config Elements. Within this, I can add several helpful website-related managers. HTTP Cache Manager allows me to manipulate the cache that can be sent with the requests in the HTTP load test. This means that I can preserve or delete a cache during that test. HTTP Cookie Manager allows me to manage the cookies used within the HTTP load test. If, for example, I'm testing anything with authentication, and I want to preserve the cookies, then this allows me to do just that. HTTP Header Manager does exactly what it says on the tin, it manages the headers of the HTTP load test. This means that…
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