Great!  Thanks Mike.

I also ran across a bug this morning dealing with copying and pasting.
Is your normal process to just submit that through bugzilla?

Michael Stover wrote:
> I just added (CVS Head) this to the HTTP Defaults Config so that you can
> control the behavior of multiple http samplers from one place.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:33 -0400, Chad La Joie wrote:
> 
>>There is a default, not doing it, the feature request is the ability to
>>change that default within a larger scope.
>>
>>I'm not trying to debate the merits of hosting images on separate
>>servers.  In the application I'm currently testing, no matter how much
>>traffic it ever gets the images won't be hosted on another server
>>because the product vendor isn't going to do that.
>>
>>I'm just trying to point out that in the two applications I'm currently
>>testing, having such a feature would be nice.  And, as far as I can
>>tell, there isn't any technical reason not to do it.
>>
>>Peter Lin wrote:
>>
>>>to my knowledge, there isn't a default. I would advise against making
>>>all the HTTP sampler get the embedded resource.  I mainly work on
>>>large sites and performance is usually a hard requirement. The
>>>applications that I've worked on first hand used a dedicated image
>>>server. In fact, if you look at any website that supports moderate to
>>>heavy load, all the images are served off a dedicated image server.
>>>
>>>hosting the images on a dedicated server will easily improve the
>>>performance of a website by 2-3x depending on how many images each
>>>page has. the more images a page has, the greater the performance
>>>improvement.
>>>
>>>hope that helps
>>>
>>>peter
>>>
>>>
>>>On 5/25/05, Chad La Joie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Yep, I saw the check box, and I do check it.  My thinking was that
>>>>instead of having to check that box for each request (and we have a fair
>>>>number of them in our test plans) it would be nice if I could have that
>>>>be the default behavior, either because it was the default behavior for
>>>>the HTTP sampler, or because I was able to set on the HTTP request defaults.
>>>>
>>>>Peter Lin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request
>>>>>
>>>>>if you look at the Http request, you should see "retrieve all embedded
>>>>>resource".  if you check that, Jmeter will retrieve all the images.
>>>>>Keep in mind that most users are not going to download all the images
>>>>>on every single page. Any image that has already been downloaded and
>>>>>cached in the browser won't be re-downloaded.  the exception to this
>>>>>case is when a user explicitly sets the browser to always retrieve
>>>>>every image.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm assuming there's access logs from production. What I tend to do is
>>>>>look at the log report and figure out the ratio of images to pages.
>>>>>this way, you get closer to simulating real traffic conditions.
>>>>>
>>>>>peter
>>>>>
>>>>>On 5/25/05, Chad La Joie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>When load testing web applications you generally want to simulate, as
>>>>>>closely as possible, what would happen if a real user was doing their
>>>>>>thing.  So, for us, that means that for each HTTP request we want it to
>>>>>>retrieve all the resources for that page as well.  It seems like this
>>>>>>might be a very common thing, perhaps even the normal behavior people
>>>>>>wanted.  So I was wondering if either the default behavior of the HTTP
>>>>>>Request sampler could be to fetch those things, or in a more
>>>>>>configurable manner, if there could be an option of the Http Request
>>>>>>Defaults config element to set this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Just a thought.
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Chad La Joie             315Q St. Mary's Hall
>>>>>>Project Sentinel         202.687.0124
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