You can disable all secondary requests within an HTTP performance
test or a subset of requests in the test. Secondary requests are all
requests within a page other than the primary request.
About this task
To disable other elements in tests or schedules (for any
protocol), see
Disabling portions of a test or schedule.
Procedure
- In the Test Navigator, browse to the test, and double-click
it. The test opens.
- In the Test Element Details area, click the HTTP
Options tab.
- At Secondary request behavior, click Modify.
- In the Enable or Disable Secondary Requests box, select
one or more of the following options:
Option |
Description |
All secondary |
Selects all secondary requests. |
Images |
Selects all secondary requests that are image-related. This
selection includes all secondary requests where the Content-type header
of the response contains image or the path of the URI
of the request contains a .gif, .png, .jpg, .bmp. or .tif extension. |
Host/Port based |
Selects all secondary requests that use the specified host:port
pair for connections. A list of host:port pairs in the test is displayed. |
User-defined |
Selects all secondary requests where the user-specified string,
or a string matching a user-specified regular expression, is in the
request URI. |
- You typically keep the boxes under Do not disable
secondary requests selected, which leaves them enabled. However,
if you have extensive knowledge of the system under test and have
already done some troubleshooting, you might clear these boxes in
the following cases:
- With responses containing set-cookie headers: If the cookies set
in a particular request are not important to the remaining requests,
you may disable them. This decision requires you to know how the system
under test uses cookies.
- With data sources used by enabled requests: If a test contains
superfluous data correlation, you may disable it. This decision requires
you to know how the system under test uses data correlation.
- Select Disable or Enable to
modify the secondary requests. The requests are now
enabled or disabled.