Re: [hobbit] Possible to have Hobbit retain and use cookies?

[Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Martin Rogers wrote:
> We have an issue in using Hobbit to monitor a system of WebLogic and Oracle
> application servers.  Hobbit is monitoring each of our 4 WebLogic servers on
> a regular (30/60 second) basis.  By default, WebLogic creates a unique
> HTTPSession when each request is served; this is keyed with a JSESSIONID
> cookie which is sent back with the reply.  A browser, or our load generator
> (Grinder) retains the cookie.
> 
> Hobbit seems to be discarding these cookies; the result is that each request
> is generating a new Session.  This has little performance overhead, but
> serves to confuse our WebLogic statistics; we can not tell how many 'real'
> users there are logged on to our system, because they are masked by 700+
> 'hobbit' sessions.
> 
> It is possible to have Hobbit retain these cookies and send with subsequent
> requests to the same URL?

I've given the cookie-handling code an overhaul, and added support for
session cookies as long as they appear in the HTTP headers - that is
true for most cases, but I have seen some webpages where cookies are set
through Javascript code. Cannot handle that...


Regards,
Henrik