Chapter 7
Load Testing a Website
A Bit of Theory
In Chapter 1, Quick Start with JMeter, we saw how to create and run a simple test case on a web application. In this chapter, we're going to go deeper into this part.
In order to access your web application, users will use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol through their web browser.
The HTTP protocol is rather simple, and understanding it is of great help when writing a test script with JMeter. The role of HTTP is to exchange information between the client and the server.
As a picture says a thousand words:
Figure 7.1: A simplified view of the HTTP protocol
An HTTP request ...
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