How to capture redirect response header - redirect

I am trying to record a simple login and logout flow for a .Net application. After I submit the login credentials the welcome page's URL has a large alpha numeric number. This number is required to continue to the next steps.
On Fiddler I have noticed that the login credential submission request results in a 302 response and this response contain an a=129characterstring that i need in my subsequent requests.
On JMeter I have added a recording controller and on the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder I have Follow Redirects and Use KeepAlive checked (See below screenshot)
I have also recorded with Follow Redirects unchecked and different options for Grouping and HTTP Sampler Settings.
But with none of them I am able to record/capture the 302 response that i see on fiddler. Instead the login credential submission request always returns a 200 response, even if the login fails.
It is not as if that JMeter is not recording redirect requests, further down the scenario flow I have another redirect request which is captured.
I can't be the only one who is/has faced this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be doing differently to get the 302 response?

To do this:
Record with default options, the redirect Http Request triggered by 302 will be disabled by default.
Then you will need after this to uncheck "Follow Redirect" in the first one, and add a Regular Expression Post Processor to extract the data you want.
Then enable the commented second request and inject the extracted variable.

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Jmeter 302 instead of 200

I have two request in 1st request is giving me 307 redirect along with location header.
I pull Location header from response headers of 1st request and then passed it to second request.
Now 2nd request is giving me 302 every time.
I tried to play with follow request / redirect automatically options in 1st and 2nd request. However it didnt help. I checked both requests shows Https, I checked cache manager it is working fine.
Played with some settings related to Cache Control still issue is occurring.
2nd request is responsible for generating phpsessionid as 'set-cookie' which will only come when 200 OK will happen.
If anyone has any workaround, please assist. Thanks.
As per HTTP Status 302
The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 302 Found redirect status response code indicates that the resource requested has been temporarily moved to the URL given by the Location header. A browser redirects to this page but search engines don't update their links to the resource (in 'SEO-speak', it is said that the 'link-juice' is not sent to the new URL).
so my expectation is that you need to play the same trick as with the 1st request, to wit extract the redirect URL from the Location header and add 3rd HTTP Request sampler to hit that URL
In general a "good" JMeter test should behave exactly like a real browser so you should cross-check JMeter's network footprint with what is in the "network" tab of your browser developer tools and amend JMeter's configuration so it would send exactly the same requests as the browser does.

JMeter: Redirect after post not sending cookies

I am attempting to Login to my app with JMeter Script.
I have Cookie Manager and a Cache Manager added
My Thread Group script
GET on main login page (/app) to return session id and form fields
and cookie
POST of completed form fields with cookie (/posthandler) with "follow redirects
What happens is
POST sends initial cookie (from GET) and form fields and logs in ok
the session is established (I see a record in our app database)
the response is a redirect with a new cookie
JMeter redirects (GET) to the session url (/app?session=xxxxx)
this goes with "[no cookies]" (according to request panel)
As that request arrives without the new cookies - the app issues a second redirect back to the login page.
So is there a way to force the GET Redirect after the POST response to send the cookie?
My theory is that JMeter is that, because of the different URI path for the POST and redirect GET, JMeter is not sending the cookie.
I have tried
various Cookie Manager settings (standard, default, compatibility).
followed this Understanding and Using JMeter Cookie Manager and set check.cookies=false.
and advice SO - JMeter: Login flow involving URL redirection not working including making sure there was an init
My problem was self-inflicted !
I was running against a different environment than usual which had a different context root e.g. /test/app rather than /app. For this I amended my ${Domain} User parameter with "my.domain.com/test" rather than adjust all the Path settings.
For requests sent this approach appeared to work as the ${Domain}+${Path} resolved to the correct URL - but the Cookies created by the server were for ${Path} (as in /test/app) and JMeter was seeing this differently (as in /app).
I have now introduced a ${CtxRoot} User variable (set to /test/) and prepended this to all my Path values - and my Login is now working.

Surveymonkey: create webhook to get response in sugarcrm

I am trying to create a surveymonkey webhook to receive my survey response and i am passing my SugarCRM custom entry point URL as "Subscription Url". But i am getting error " 'mycustomEntryPointUrl' did not return a success status code. Status code is 301". My Entry point is working fine if i run it in browser using its URL also my Sugar is working smoothly.
So, i just want to know any other reason which can cause this error.
Yes so HTTP status code 301 means the page has moved permanently. If you visit it in your browser, for example, you would see a network request to the page specified with a status code of 301, then a second one to the new page. Our API request won't do any redirect, so if a 301 is returned it will raise an error.
This sometimes happens when you go to a page with http and then it redirects to https due to rules on your server.
You also want to make sure your subscription URL supports a HEAD request without any redirect.

Re-post HTML form after OpenAM/OpenSSO authentication

The default process when authenticating user on OpenAM/OpenSSO works with a 302 http redirection, opening OpenAM/OpenSSO authentication formular. The original URL is stored into "goto" parameter, which allows OpenAM/OpenSSO to redirect the user back on orignal URL after correct authentication.
This works well when using HTTP GET method (i.e. when entering URL), but it is not suitable for POST method. For instance, if the session expires while the user posts a HTML form, the data are lost because HTML form inputs are not present in goto parameter.
Do you know it it is possible to configure J2EE Agent in order it re-posts user HTML form after valid authentication ?
Both the Java EE and the Web agents support post data preservation, see the documentation.

Handling HTTP 302 error and redirecting in Backbone.JS "sync" method

I've got a secured Backbone.js app (that uses Spring security atm.), so a logged-in user must have a valid session-cookie (JSESSIONID). Now, if this session is invalidated (deleted, expired, whatever) and the user attempts to make a request, Spring security will return a 302 Error as an attempt to redirect the user to a login-form.
As is explained in this answer, this 302 response gets handled by the browser (it doesn't reach my app) so what is returned to my app is a 200 OK response with contenttype="text/html" (containing the login form).
Thats an issue, because when my Backbone model attempts to do a sync to a url, it expects JSON. If this sync happens without a valid session, the 200 "text/html" response is returned when "application/json" is expected, giving me a JSON parse error in jQuery.extend.parseJSON.
With great help from this question/answer, I've overridden the Backbone.sync method in order to use my own error handling. However, since the 302 never reaches my error handler I cannot override the redirect myself.
My situation is very similar to this question, however a final solution to the problem was never posted. Could someone please help me figure out the ideal way to ensure a redirect to the login page happens?
Instead of returning the login page with HTTP 200 OK, you should configure Spring Security to return HTTP 401 Unauthorized for unauthenticated AJAX requests. You can detect an AJAX request (as opposed to a normal page request) by checking for the X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest request header.
You can use the global $.ajaxError handler to check for 401 errors and redirect to the login page there.
This is how we've implemented it and it works nicely. I'm not a Spring guy, though, so I can't really help with the Spring Security configuration.
EDIT. Instead of custom coockie it will be better to use solution provided by #fencliff.
I think you can use some other field of XHR to detect this situation. A special coockie may do the trick.
You can define your own authentication failure handler from Spring Security side. At the moment when redirect to login page occurs you will be able to add some coockie to HttpServletResponse. Your custom Backbone.sync method will check this cookie. If it is present, it will launch your custom handler for this case (do not forget remove the coockie at the same time).
<sec:http ... >
<sec:form-login login-page='/login.html' authentication-failure-handler-ref="customAuthenticationFailureHandler" />
</sec:http>
<bean id="customAuthenticationFailureHandler" class="com.domain.CustomAuthenticationFailureHandler" />
CustomAuthenticationFailureHandler must implement org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AuthenticationFailureHandler interface. You can add your coockie and then call default SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler.onAuthenticationFailure(...) implementation.