JMeter – LDAP Extended Request Defaults

JMeter - LDAP Extended Request Defaults

What is LDAP? LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a software protocol for enabling anyone to locate organizations, individuals, and other resources such as files and devices in a network, whether on the public Internet or on a corporate intranet. LDAP is a “lightweight” (smaller amount of code) version of Directory Access Protocol (DAP), which … Read more

JMeter – HTTP Header Manager

JMeter - HTTP Header Manager

The browser sends an HTTP request header with some additional information to the server. This additional information is required to fulfil the server requirements to respond to that particular request. Each time the browser sends a request to a server attach the headers with information like Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding, User-Agent, Referer etc.JMeter provides an ‘HTTP Header … Read more

JMeter – HTTP Cookie Manager

JMeter - HTTP Cookie Manager

What is a Cookie? As per definition, Cookies are text files stored on the client’s computer and they are kept for various information tracking purposes. Generally, a cookie is added to the response from the servlet and it is stored in the cache of the browser. After that, if a request is sent by the … Read more

JMeter – HTTP Cache Manager

JMeter - HTTP Cache Manager

Generally, web browsers have some special features which allow to reduce the traffic over the Internet and also reduce the usage of network bandwidth that makes communication between clients and servers faster than usual. One such feature is called ‘Caching’. In caching, the resources are downloaded from the network, for use in the subsequent requests … Read more

JMeter – FTP Request Defaults

JMeter - FTP Request Defaults

Apart from HTTP and HTTPS protocols, Apache JMeter also supports FTP protocols. This article will show how can you create FTP, FTPS and SFTP test scripts using the JMeter FTP Request Defaults element. Why FTP testing is important? Load testing of FTP servers is important for determining their capacity, measuring throughput, and checking the impact … Read more

JMeter – HTTP Authorization Manager

JMeter - HTTP Authorization Manager

HTTP Authorization Manager is used to handle browser authentication pop-up in JMeter script. Many times you have seen while downloading a file from an FTP server, a ‘gatekeeper’ pop-up appears which is shown below: This pop-up window is generated by a browser when the server requires a username/password. The frame will vary from browser to … Read more