On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:34:00 -0600, Danny R. Faught
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> sebb wrote:
> > Probably because Jmeter is not taking note of the "rel" attribute -
> > which is a bug.
> 
> Thanks for confirming that.

I'll try and apply a fix soon.

> 
> > AFAIK the same <link> tag is used for external CSS files, which should
> > be downloaded. These use a different rel attribute.
> 
> Right.  Just before the troublesome one is this one that I do want to
> download:
> 
> <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="jambo.css">
> 
> > Jmeter also does not (yet) cache the downloaded resources, so it will
> > download images every time, which a browser would not do.
> >
> > So if you want a more accurate test, you should probably switch off
> > "Retrieve all embedded resources" anyway, and download the extra
> > resources manually.
> 
> I've thought about doing that, but since I have a random element to my
> test, that's still not sufficient for simulating what a real cache would
> do when retrieving pages in varying order.  And listing all the
> resources individually would make the test harder to maintain.

Indeed. 

That's just given me an idea though - rather than try to maintain a
cache, a cruder approach might be to provide a "Retrieve all embedded
resources - first time only" option.

This should be simple to implement - and should provide most of what is needed?

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> Danny R. Faught
> Tejas Software Consulting
> http://tejasconsulting.com/
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