probably something in the binary is causing jmeter to break then - no logs? i guess you can raise a case with the exact binary if this is reproducible.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Shmuel Krakower <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you both, I should clarify. > I am using JMeter 2.8 and usually I do see binary data, but specifically > for few requests to akamai hosted video data, I cannot see the binary > response although I see that the response body size is around 1000 bytes. > > I expect to parse this binary data, as I know the binary structure of it. > > I'll try the trick with save response to file on Sunday and report back. > > Best, > Shmuel Krakower. > Beatsoo.org - re-use your jmeter scripts for application performance > monitoring from worldwide locations for free. > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:01 PM, David Luu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe there's some support for it in JMeter in terms of view results > > tree. I can see images, displayed in response tab in the view results > tree. > > Images are binary data. You can also view PDF content as well, but it > gets > > displayed as bunch of funky characters with some text rather than a > > rendered PDF. Not sure how other binary file types are rendered in the > > response tab of view results tree, assume it would show like the PDF case > > if no native viewer is built in, kinda like viewing a hex dump of a > binary > > file. > > > > FYI, I'm using JMeter 2.5 and higher versions, mostly JMeter 2.5 > > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Deepak Shetty <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I use a Save Responses to a file listener with a variable file name > > prefix > > > scoped to the sampler returning the binary data > > > A viewer needs to be specific to the binary format (unless you are Neo > :) > > > and can read bytes) and you cant store arbitrary binary data into an > XML > > > file (JTL) > > > Listeners and Jmeter do have a setting to save responses to the JTL > file > > > (but with the caveat above - you wont be able to parse the XML in rare > > > situations) > > > > > > regards > > > deepak > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Shmuel Krakower <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have a case where I get HTTP response in binary format. > > > > The problem is that I cannot see the binary response in the view > > results > > > > tree nor the jtl file. > > > > > > > > Is this supported? > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Shmuel Krakower. > > > > > > > > > >
