4 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRe: [Webtest] problem with redirect a...
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Luca Scheuring16 Jul 2004 02:54 
Marc Guillemot16 Jul 2004 03:00 
Luca Scheuring16 Jul 2004 06:50 
Marc Guillemot19 Jul 2004 02:22 
Subject:Re: [Webtest] problem with redirect after button invocation
From:Marc Guillemot (mgui@yahoo.fr)
Date:07/19/2004 02:22:16 AM
List:com.canoo.lists.webtest

Not sure that http://myserver/login?jumpTo=http://myserver/start is a correct url. Shouldn't the paramater value be encoded as http://myserver/login?jumpTo=http%3A%2F%2Fmyserver%2Fstart

Marc.

Luca Scheuring wrote:

hi marc

thanx a lot for the tip with the debug level. I was looking for this feature but haven't found it...

the debug output helped me to find the problem. it's a bit tricky and has nothing to do with webtest itself. for geeks: see explanation below

--luca

the problem lied in the com.meterware.httpunit.WebRequest-class of the httpunit distribution.

the function private String stripDoubleSlashes( String url ) normalizes URLs by collapsing // into /.

the url that webtest got by 302-redirect looked like: Location: http://myserver/login?jumpTo=http://myserver/start

this url was transformed to http://myserver/login?jumpTo=http:/myserver/start which of course caused the 404...

after patching the WebRequest-class it works fine.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: webt@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webt@lists.canoo.com] Im Auftrag von Marc Guillemot Gesendet: Freitag, 16. Juli 2004 12:01 An: webt@lists.canoo.com Betreff: Re: [Webtest] problem with redirect after button invocation

Try setting the log level to debug in the WEBTEST_HOME/lib/log4j.properties, you will see a bit more what is working.

Page not found means return code 404 and not 302. May it be that the page to which the server want to redirect with a 302 doesn't exist?

Marc.

Luca Scheuring wrote:

hello webtest community

here my test scenario: - invocation of a http location - server sends redirect (302) to a https location which contains a login-form - webtest follows redirect and switches properly to https protocol - webtest fills out the form values and invokes the login button - server sends back (still using https) a redirect (302) to a http location (I know this from the webserver log-file) - webtest switches the protocol back to http and accesses

the new http

location (this step fails)

problem: it seems that webtest can't handle the redirect which is received after the button invocation. since this works fine using

only http (no

https), I guess the problem is the redirect to a http-site

as a result

of a button invocation when using https before.

this is the message I get: Test step clickbutton named "Click the submit button" failed with message "Step "clickbutton "Click the submit button" (6/7):

Page not

found : click button"

in general, switching between http and https released by redirects seems to work fine in both directions.

I know that my scenario might be a bit unusual but it's the way the website that I want to test works.

did anybody encounter this problem or does have an idea what I am doing wrong? (see my ant script below)

thanx,

--luca

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<target name="login"> <testSpec name="login" > <config host="myhost" port="80" protocol="http" basepath="/" saveresponse="true" verbose="true" summary="true" resultfile="debug.xml" showhtmlparseroutput="true" > </config> <steps> <invoke stepid="goto login page" url="login.html" /> <verifytitle stepid="check login" text="Login" /> <setinputfield stepid="set user name" name="credential_0" value="username" /> <setinputfield stepid="set password" name="credential_1" value="*******" /> <clickbutton label="Go" stepid="Click the submit button" /> </steps> </testSpec> </target>