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Daniel Gioulakis Posts: 5
10/12/2011
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***Resolved***
I'm very new to SS, so maybe I have missed a setting in the configuration, but I can't seem to find a way to tell SS to use the headers from the fiddler request.
I am evaluating StresStimulus against web services which return json and bson data. These services are protected with custom authentication - very similar to OAuth2 MAC. Therefore I need specific headers sent or the request dies with an unauthorized request.
Is there no way to tell SS to keep the headers that are present in the Fiddler request?
Thanks,
Daniel
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Vadim @StresStimulus Administrator Posts: 583
10/12/2011
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Hi Daniel,
My understanding is that during the replay, some of the request headers recorded in Fiddler are not sent. Is this correct? What headers are missing? Also, are the missing in all StresStimulus requests?
Cheers,
-Vadim
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Daniel Gioulakis Posts: 5
10/12/2011
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Thanks for the reply:
I have a fiddler request that looks like:
Accept: application/json
User-Agent: Network.Client/1.0.0.0
Authorization: NAT.User client_id="MyClient",site_id="1607",site_secret="e16JHDNicVfXmLPYmT04qgidmJh%2fBNC1zvVU7wguIpQ%3d",user_id="12",user_password="23I6xEXPXyFx0M5m04HwcCx%2bPOzgLKj6P7Hd0i8nNDM%3d"
Host: api.networkexample.com
I would like to have SS use these headers from the Fiddler request.
These are the headers from the SS Test Case request:
Accept: application/json
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:2.0) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/4.0
Host: api.networkexample.com
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Vadim @StresStimulus Administrator Posts: 583
10/12/2011
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Daniel,
I see that the "Authorization" header is removed. This is a dynamic header. Submitting the recorded value in the "Authorization" header can fail authentication on the server. The server expects to receive dynamic values that depend on the authentication type and are dissimilar from the recording value. Therefore to handle the supported authentication types (e.g. NTLM or basic), StresStimulus replaces recorded authorization header with dynamic values, which depend on the user's credentials, etc.
In your case, StresStimulus removes the recorded headers but does not know how to generate the new ones to comply with your custom authentication. Do you know whether your server will accept the recorded header, and keeping the recorded header value will help with your performance test? You can check this by reissuing recorded sessions in Fiddler. Select the captured sessions, right-click, select Replay –> Reissue Requests and check if the responses are authenticated.
Let me know if you are satisfied with the responses (from the performance test standpoint). Based on your feedback I may be able to provide you with a workaround. Also, can you check if the Authorization header presents all recorded session or only in those that are involved in the sign-in process.
Cheers,
-Vadim
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Daniel Gioulakis Posts: 5
10/12/2011
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Our services do work with the recorded header. They are RESTful in nature - in that each request contains the authentication information required and further requests are not based upon a session identity.
Thanks again Vadim
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Vadim @StresStimulus Administrator Posts: 583
10/12/2011
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Daniel,
We posted a build that keeps the recorded Authorization headers for non-supported authentication types. The direct download is here
Please let me know if it works for you so we can make it the official version
Thanks for your feedback!
-Vadim
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Daniel Gioulakis Posts: 5
10/13/2011
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This is great. Everything seems to be working. The only item which seems like a bug is my User-Agent header is being replaced. I have un-checked "Replace User-Agent String" but my header is still being overwritten.
Thanks for your help Vadim. I'm going to keep testing with the trial for just a bit longer before making a decision. Also I noticed there is support for adding Performance Counters from external machines. Is there a guide to what account permissions are required to access these counters?
Daniel
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Vadim @StresStimulus Administrator Posts: 583
10/13/2011
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Hi Daniel,
Overriding User-Agent bug is confirmed. We will release the fix shortly and I will let you know. I am glad that other headers worked for you.
SS should be able to monitor performance counter on the remote computer if they can be monitored by Perfmon. There are many sources about using Perfmon remotely with various OS and the networks, for example http://www.poweradmin.com/help/remotemonitoringhints.aspx. Once Perfmon works, try StresStimulus and please let me know if it worked too.
Cheers,
-Vadim
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Daniel Gioulakis Posts: 5
10/13/2011
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I've got the performance monitors working nicely and will be running tests throughout our next sprint. StresStimulus' integration with fiddler is excellent and makes this process much easier than that of WCAT. Thanks for all your help. Will keep you posted how it goes.
It already looks like we were able to find bottlenecks which might require us to re-examine our large data-transfer services.
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Vadim @StresStimulus Administrator Posts: 583
10/13/2011
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Daniel,
I am glad to hear that StresStimulus helped with your performance testing / troubleshooting.Thanks for letting me know.
We posted the build with the user agent fix. The direct download is here
Looking forward to your updates.
Best,
-Vadim
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Nicholas Godfrey Posts: 3
1/14/2013
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I think I've got a problem replaying with headers as well. Can I get this version to try? I have an authenticatino cookie that needs sending just as it is in the fiddler session. Is there an easy way to do that? I'm using v2.5.4752.
Nick.
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Vadim @StresStimulus Administrator Posts: 583
1/14/2013
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Nick,
The issue in this post was fixed a long time ago. So your version is free from this issue.
Cheers,
-Vadim
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Nicholas Godfrey Posts: 3
1/15/2013
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Can I email you some screenshots to see what you think?
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Vadim @StresStimulus Administrator Posts: 583
1/15/2013
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Nick,
Sure. You can paste your screenshots in a private message. Also, you can upload your Test to our secure support repository, so I can examine it. To do so, in StresStimulus main menu -> support options, select "upload support case". Make sure to clearly describe your question.
Cheers,
-Vadim
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