Disable and enable secondary HTTP requests

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Overview

Secondary requests on a page occur after the primary request for that page. You can disable all secondary requests within an HTTP performance test or a subset of requests in the test.

You can also disable other elements in tests or schedules (for any protocol)

Disable or enable a set of secondary requests

1. In the Test Navigator, browse to the test, and double-click it.

2. In the Test Element Details area, click...
   HTTP Options tab | Secondary request behavior | Modify

   

3. In the Enable or Disable Secondary Requests box, select one or more of the following options:

   Option	Description
   All secondary	Select all secondary requests.
   Images	Select all secondary requests where... Content-type header of the response contains image Path of the URI of the request contains an extension: .gif, .png, .jpg, .bmp. or .tif
   Host/Port based	Select all secondary requests that use the specified server connection. A list of server connections in the test is displayed.
   User-defined	Select all secondary requests where the user-specified strings match the request URI.

4. Typically keep the boxes under...
   Do not disable secondary requests

   ...selected, which leaves them enabled.

5. If you understand the system, you might uncheck the following boxes...

   • with responses containing set-cookie headers

     If the cookies set in a particular request are not important to the remaining requests, you may disable them.

   • with data sources used by enabled requests:

     If a test contains superfluous data correlation, you may disable it.

6. Select Disable or Enable to modify the secondary requests. The requests are now enabled or disabled.

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