[OpenSTA-users] Can a script wait until the end of a HTTP Binary file download completes before continuing?

[Tam W. <tam...@te...>]

Hi,

I am using the OpenSTA toolset for testing a Web Proxy rather than a web
server.  I want to use the tool to generate HTTP load.

One of the forms of load on a proxy is http downloads (mostly of binary
files).

Can the OpenSTA toolset simulate a real world HTTP binary file download?
In particular will a VU script wait until the end of the file download
before continuing with the next GET request in the script?

I have managed to record a script which downloads a word document file,
but even though I have tried to use,
LOAD RESPONSE_INFO BODY ON 1 INTO MyBody
I am fairly suspicious that TestExecuter isn't waiting for the full file
download before the VU script finishes, it seems to simply wait until it
gets the 200 level response and the first (of many) packets of data.

I'm fairly sure I'm not suffering from the issues/bugs in the FAQ to do
with the LOAD RESPONSE_INFO BODY call failing (which I worked around by
loading the HEADER first), because I get a status of 0 and I can log the
first few bytes of the body.

Any help gratefully received.  Happy to send more detail if I'm not on
an impossible path.

OpenSTA Version:1.4.3.20 and OS: Windows 2003 Server

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