On 31 March 2011 20:34, Neil Hatton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using JMeter 2.4 on Windows to test an II6 site which only supports NTLM
> and Negotiation authentication.
>
> NTLM authentication is working using the HTTP Authorization Manager, but
> JMeter pre-emptively tries Basic Authentication on each request.  This
> results in 3 attempts for every request whereas a browser would normally
> only go through this process once per connection.

Which sampler are you using? HttpClient should be better behaved than
the JVM one.
Are you using Keep-alive?
AFAIK, it should retain the auth for the session but I cannot test this.

> This puts an additional load on the web server and the Active Directory
> domain controller which makes the test results less accurate than they
> should be.
>
> Is it possible for JMeter to pre-emptively send the NTLM challenge response
> on subsequent requests once the initial authentication has completed?

Possible, not implemented.

Create a Bugzilla enhancement issue to keep track of it.

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