Page request details

The page request fields apply to the currently selected page request. The HTTP protocol is documented in RFC2616.

Version
The HTML version.
Method
Can contain any of the standard HTTP request methods. GET and POST are the most common.
Host
Usually, the Web server host's fully-qualified domain name but occasionally an IP address or other name. If dimmed, this indicates that the host is shared with other pages and can only be changed in the Connection details.
Port
The Web server's listener port.
URL
The path to a resource (page, graphic file, stylesheet file, etc.) locator. When the method is GET, the URL frequently includes one or more a query strings that will be designated as a datapool candidate.
Data
Additional content data that might be needed to clarify the request. When the method is POST, the data frequently includes one or more values that will be designated as datapool candidates.
Request headers
The table lists each request header and its value. To change a header's value, double-click the row and click Edit. To add a new header, click Add.
Primary request for page
Appears dimmed and is checked if this is the primary request for the page.
Click to set as primary
Appears unchecked if this is not the primary request. If you check it, because there can be only one primary request in a page, the previous heading is moved to this page and this heading is moved to the former primary request.
Delay
A programmatically-calculated time delay that is observed before this request is issued. Delays are statistical eulations of user behavior.
Character set
Contains the character set. If you change the character set, click the button beside the field to activate your change,
Enable ARM monitoring

This item appears only if the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit is installed..

Performance tests can generate profiling data that Performance Optimization Toolkit can use to identify performance problems in the tested application. Check this box if you want a test to generate profiling data. For more details, see "Collecting performance data from an application in an automated test environment" in the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit documentation.

Note that this check box appears in multiple test elements and that enabling it in an element enables it in children of the element. For example, enabling monitoring at the test level enables monitoring at the page and request levels as well. But you can enable monitoring for a specific test page: doing so enables monitoring for the requests of that page but not for other pages or their requests.

Parent topic: Test editor reference

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