Bug 55531

Summary:	Proxy recording and redirects
Product:	JMeter - Now in Github	Reporter:	Sebb <sebb>
Component:	HTTP	Assignee:	JMeter issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.9
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP

Description Sebb 2013-09-06 14:15:12 UTC

The proxy recorder currently defaults to creating HTTP Samplers with "Follow redirects" enabled.

However the recorded samples include the redirects performed by the browser, so playback will follow the redirect and then send the recorded redirect sample.

Possible solutions include:
1) Default to not following redirects. 
That is easy to do, and the replay will always sample the original redirects. However, if the redirect is not static, the replay is likely to fail.

2) Somehow detect the samples that are the result of a redirect, and drop them from the recorded test (perhaps better, disable them?)

Comment 1 Sebb 2013-09-06 14:24:34 UTC

In the meantime, it would help to update the docs.

Comment 2 Sebb 2013-09-10 01:28:19 UTC

It's easy to detect a redirect - e.g. using HTTPSampleResult.isRedirect() - however it's not the redirect response sample that needs to be disabled - it's the subsequent samples that are the result of the redirect (and any further redirects). Keeping track of this is a bit trickier.

Comment 3 Sebb 2013-09-10 23:30:07 UTC

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1521679
Log:
Proxy recording and redirects
Added code to disable redirected samples.
Bugzilla Id: 55531

Modified:
    jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter.properties
    jmeter/trunk/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/proxy/ProxyControl.java
    jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
    jmeter/trunk/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml

Comment 4 The ASF infrastructure team 2022-09-24 20:37:55 UTC

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3228