Re: [Htmlunit-user] Slow form submission with method=POST

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Brad Clarke wrote:
> 
> I have a login form in my application that is currently a POST. When I 
> run my login test against it (which logs in about 10 times) it takes 50+ 
> seconds to run. When I simply change the method on that form to a GET 
> the running time drops to 18 seconds. A bit of debugging showed about a 
> 3 second delay in calls to HtmlInput.click() in the POST but not in the 
> GET.
> 
> I'm testing against a custom web server so I really don't know where the 
> problem is. I'm just looking for a little help tracking down the issue 
> right now. From what I can tell HtmlUnit doesn't do much (if anything) 
> different because it's a POST, so I figure the problem is between 
> http-commons and our web server.

commons-httpclient RC1 was released yesterday so I'd recommend upgrading 
to that to see if it fixes the problem.

http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-httpclient/v2.0/commons-httpclient-2.0-rc1.zip 


I can't think of anything offhand that would cause a performance 
difference like this.

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