UltraStudio ToolBox HTTP Client
Version: 17.07
Features and Capabilities
The HTTP/S client panel provides a full RFC 2616 compliant HTTP/S client based on the Apache HttpComponents/HttpClient project. The HTTP/S client panel is capable of
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Sending HTTP/S requests with POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS & TRACE methods.
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Supporting 2-way SSL, ignoring SSL, ignoring host name verification.
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Validation and support BASIC, DIGEST or NTLM authentication.
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Setting preset payloads.
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Setting payload by typing in or selecting a payload file.
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Using binary payloads - such as raw Hessian messages.
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Sending requests using both HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 version
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Controlling the use of chunking, expectation control (i.e. waiting for a 100 continue reply before sending the body), keepalive and response compression control (i.e. accepting Gzipped responses).
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Setting the socket timeout to allow the client to specify the maximum delay for a response to arrive.
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Sending SOAP requests with custom SOAPActions
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Setting HTTP headers.
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Unzipping a gzipped response payload for read.
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Sending a concurrent load specifying the concurrency level and number of iterations.
Configuration Parameters
Main Configuration
| Configuration | Description |
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URL |
A well formed URL which the request should send to. Once a new URL is entered it will be saved and can be selected from the drop down menu at the end of the URL field. |
Method |
Select one of POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS & TRACE from the drop down menu to set as the requests HTTP method |
Content Type |
Select one of the given content type or a user can enter their own type, which will be set as Http header "Content-Type" for requests that has a payload |
Request |
Request payload to send with the request. This field becomes not accessible for HTTP methods that don’t expect a payload(e.g : GET) |
Sample Requests |
A user can easily set a one of four preset payloads to send a test message |
Request Controls |
A request payload can be imported from a file, export to a file and view in full screen. |
Java Bench Controls |
These input fields configure the load testing parameters. Concurrency : Number of concurrent threads to be used when sending requests Iterations : Number of requests send per a thread Verbosity : Verbosity level of the output |
Response Controls |
A response message can be export to a file and view in full screen. If gzip compression is enabled, then only unzip payload checkbox is visible. If Unzip Checkbox is selected the response payload field will display the extracted payload. |
Advanced Configuration
| Configuration | Description |
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Socket Timeout |
Amount of time in seconds that the client waits for a response before time out |
Http Version |
A user can switch between Http 1.0 and Http 1.1 by choosing the relevant value |
Use Expect |
Select whether to use expect-100 header to indicate the capability to the server |
Accept Gzip |
Select whether client supports gzip for the response payload or not |
SOAP Action |
Set custom soap action if required |
Keep Alive |
Use Connection keep alive at the clients side |
Use Chuncking |
Use Http payload chunking for the client |
DEBUG SSL Engine |
Enable SSL level debugging, note that this could be set only before executing a request for the first time. |
Custom Headers Configuration
Header configuration can be added and removed from the table as header name header value pairs.
Authentication Configuration
Authentication Configuration consist of two parts Http Authentication Configuration and SSL Configuration
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Http Authentication Configuration For Http Authentication user can select one of Basic, Digest and NTLM types and provide required authentication details.
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SSL Configuration Even though the client talks to a HTTPS endpoint, ToolBox HTTPS client can Disable SSL verification for testing purposes. SSL verification will only work when Enable SSL Verification check box is selected. When SSL verification is enabled a user can optionally select whether to verify the server host name or not by selecting Enable hostname verification check box. When SSL verification is enabled, Trust store and Identity store information should be provided.
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