Hi,
Recently I upgraded from Apache JMeter 2.13 to JMeter 3.3 and have encountered
some difficulties with the Cookie Manager, which I wanted to ask about.
For a scenario that worked fine in v2.13 when I switched to v3.3, I noticed
that I was receiving errors in the error log of the following ilk:
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ERROR o.a.j.p.h.c.HC4CookieHandler: Unable to add the cookie
org.apache.http.cookie.MalformedCookieException: Blank or null value for domain
attribute
at
org.apache.http.impl.cookie.BasicDomainHandler.parse(BasicDomainHandler.java:60)
~[httpclient-4.5.5.jar:4.5.5]
at
org.apache.http.impl.cookie.RFC6265CookieSpec.parse(RFC6265CookieSpec.java:181)
~[httpclient-4.5.5.jar:4.5.5]
at
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.HC4CookieHandler.addCookieFromHeader(HC4CookieHandler.java:125)
[ApacheJMeter_http.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.CookieManager.addCookieFromHeader(CookieManager.java:361)
[ApacheJMeter_http.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.saveConnectionCookies(HTTPHC4Impl.java:1583)
[ApacheJMeter_http.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.sample(HTTPHC4Impl.java:528)
[ApacheJMeter_http.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerProxy.sample(HTTPSamplerProxy.java:74)
[ApacheJMeter_http.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1189)
[ApacheJMeter_http.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1178)
[ApacheJMeter_http.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.executeSamplePackage(JMeterThread.java:490)
[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processSampler(JMeterThread.java:416)
[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at
org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:250)
[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:4.0 r1823414]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_131]
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The scenario runs to completion and is stepping through appropriately but each
time an HTTP request is made, another error is added to the log.
Research revealed that others have encountered this, with the suggestion of
changing "CookieManager.check.cookies=false" in the jmeter.properties file. The
error still persisted however. Another suggestion was to change the
implementation in the Cookie manager but this is not an option in newer
versions of JMeter (available in 2.13 but not 3.3 or 4.0). Coincidentally when
I changed the implementation in JMeter 2.13 from "HC3CookieHandler" to
"HC4CookieHandler" I got the same errors in there too.
It might be worth noting that this only occurs with tests for a specific
project. Other projects moved from JMeter 2.13 to JMeter 3.3 seamlessly. The
concern is that for larger tests at higher volumes, although the scenarios
work, the JMeter log fills up with these error messages for every single hit.
I am wondering if there is a way around this and why it only seems to occur in
most recent versions of JMeter?
Finally the cookie that is being returned is along the lines of the following.
".ASPXAUTH={token}; path=/; expires=Sun, 18-Feb-2018 12:32:10 GMT; domain="
Regards
Steven
