JMeter HTTP Proxy server is not recording

Question

We are trying to do performance testing using JMeter.

I used the sample guide provided in jmeter using HTTP PROXY SERVER but my record controller was not recording any requests.

After doing a lot of research and here is what the complete scenario is.

I am accessing external sites using company proxy server. So, after a bit of research, I understand I need to start my jmeter by supplying all information via command line. e.g.

jmeter -H 129.198.1.1 -P 8000 -u someusername -a someuserpassword -N localhost

Now i understand that, i don't need to confuse these settings. By default JMETER uses its own internal proxy server.

We need to configure our browser so that it uses jmeter proxy settings and i did that way.

I added a thread group, a recording controller, http proxy server with url include patterns and exclude patterns but still, it's not able to record any scripts.

What am i doing wrong? Can someone help me with it?

I used document JMeter proxy step by step which comes bundled with JMETER documentation. Here is my configuration

Answer 1

Remove everything in :

• URLs patterns to include

• URLs patterns to exclude

click on Add suggested excludes

It should work.

Currently your include patterns are wrong :

• https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Proxy_Server

The include and exclude patterns are treated as regular expressions (using Jakarta ORO). They will be matched against the host name, port (actual or implied) path and query (if any) of each browser request. If the URL you are browsing is "http://jmeter.apache.org/jmeter/index.html?username=xxxx" , then the regular expression will be tested against the string: "jmeter.apache.org:80/jmeter/index.html?username=xxxx" . Thus, if you want to include all .html files, your regular expression might look like: "..html(\?.)?" - or ".*.html" if you know that there is no query string or you only want html pages without query strings.

See this reference documentation for how to record:

• https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/jmeter_proxy_step_by_step.html

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