Configuring Internet Explorer for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) recording

You can suppress the security warning that Internet Explorer displays during SSL recording.

Performance Tester uses a proxy recording program that intercepts all traffic sent from the browser to the HTTP server and from the HTTP server to the browser. During recording at an SSL site (a site with an https:// URL), by default you see a security warning before every action and must confirm your acceptance of a security risk to continue. For example, the first time you record from an SSL site with Internet Explorer, you see the following security warning.

If you do nothing, this warning appears not only initially but with every browser action, and you must repeatedly click Yes to continue. Performing the following procedure installs the recorder certificate on the local host as a trusted authority and thereby disables warnings from Internet Explorer during recording at SSL sites. Note that this procedure has no affect on SSL recording from other browsers, which will display warnings similar to the one shown above before every action.

To disable security warnings during SSL recording from Internet Explorer:

  1. During test recording, at the first appearance of the warning dialog, click View Certificate. The Certificate dialog box opens:

  2. Click Install Certificate. The Certificate Import Wizard starts.

  3. Click Next. The second wizard page opens.
  4. Click Next. The last wizard page opens.
  5. Click Finish. The Root Certificate Store confirmation dialog box opens.
  6. Click Yes. A dialog box reports that the import was successful.
  7. Click OK. The Certificate dialog box shown in step 1 appears again.
  8. Click OK. The Security Alert dialog box shown at the top of this procedure appears again.
  9. Click OK.

Parent topic: Recording a test

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