WebSocket Sampler doesn't pass cookies from HTTP Cookie Manager

[SamAlexand]

Already using HTTP Request sampler and HTTP Cookie Manager together. Works well. JSESSIONID cookie is sent for all HTTP Requests.

After some debugging, it seems like the server side websocket is returning a 401 when WebSocket Sampler tries to connect to it. Thus It doesn't appear WebSocket Sampler uses the JSESSIONID from the HTTP Cookie Manager. Are there plans to support that? Is there a workaround?

Note that I've successfully used WebSocket Sampler to drive load before we enabled authentication. It's only since I need to pass the cookie that it is failing.

[SamAlexand]

I see that issue #28 covers this. (I searched the repository for cookies earlier, but got no results for some reason.) Apologizes.

Curious, though: since a websocket begins with an HTTP GET and is then upgraded, it would make sense to support HTTP Cookie Manager by default. Thoughts?

[SamAlexand]

Actually, still no luck. First a quick background:

So part of my jMeter script uses Cookie Manager and several HTTP Samplers to drive load to our REST apis. This works well. If I disable Cookie Manager, they fail, as expected. So good so far.

I also need to drive websocket load. As suggested in issue #28, I git cloned the code, then added code to add cookies from the cookie manager. As I loop over the cookies and print the name, I correctly see JSESSIONID and others. I also tried adding the headers using the same sample code in issue #28.

It still wasn't working, so I added an OnError handler to the code to simply print the status code:
@OnWebSocketError
public void methodName(Session session, Throwable error) {
UpgradeException ue = (UpgradeException) error;
System.out.println("uri was " + ue.getRequestURI());
System.out.println("status code was " + ue.getResponseStatusCode());
}

The status code is 401, thus the server thinks I'm unauthenticated. (Remember, the other HTTP Samplers work just fine)

Using Chrome Developer tools, I've inspected all headers and cookies that get passed when the web browser communicates with the socket, and I've tried to pass the same ones with code in issue #28.

Nearly at my wits end. It's almost as if the web socket sampler doesn't have the same context as the HTTP samplers.

Can you think of anything I've missed, or do you have other suggestions for debugging?

Websocket Sampler is quite nice and I'd really like to get this last part working.

OSX with
java version "1.8.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_51-b16)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.51-b03, mixed mode)

[SamAlexand]

I missed it earlier, but happened to stumble across @tradingscreen 's solution here https://github.com/tradingscreen/JMeter-WebSocketSampler , which was almost identical to the code I had tried, but I had missed one part. :-) So it's working.

I noticed that @tradingscreen submitted a pull request #22 to add this to websocketsampler back in April. I hope we can get it in there, as it's needed for any websocket that needs cookies.

Again, thanks for this cool and useful extension to jMeter and thanks to @tradingscreen for implementing the cookie support.

[ChittaRanjan1981]

@SamAlexand

I am working on Signalr, This is my project requirement hence downloaded websocket version websocket-9.1.1.v20140108, I dont have a good knowledge on JAVA. I am using maciejzaleski websocket sampler in JMeter First time. After a lot of r&d I success to communicate with Signalr via your Websocket sampler. Now my project build got upgraded & they are passing a Cookie Data:
.ASPXAUTH=0AE3BF3FE55AAADC5FFEAFE1120F1E45B84AC2C7D227BC8F8E1585E74D14852798F5D27B688D4AFC2C1E494263077178ECBAFC126F4D7D258A21F258779B4B9749BE9D819C51FCBE7D116691F2020FC8EABE622396AA80201872F5C671009EBB in each (Http & WS) request. Via Jmeter cookie manager in each http request cookie handled correctly & requests were passing but my Websocket requests were failing because its not passing the Cookie data.

I have gone through all above comments. As I told I can rate myself 1 outof 10 in JVAV.

Could you please let me know or send me the required websocket JAR file which handles cookies @ chitta.ranjan@mindteck.com.

Or any guide line also help me...Please

Thanks In Advance.