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

Keystore configuration element in JMeter helps to configure the Client’s side certificate. Some systems require a Client-side certificate which helps the server to know exactly who is connecting. Today, in many organizations internal users must install and present a certificate when communicating with the server in order to receive authorization to log into the organization’s IT … Read more

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

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

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