Login to webtop using curl

Hi, All.

I am trying to automate actions on webtop (login, do something operations, measure time of response etc.) using curl, but i have no success on login action. I think the reason is webtop sets cookie by javascript and curl doesnt support this method of cookie setting. Using "-c" curl key saves just JSESSIONID and appname cookie-variables, but as i can see by HTTP requests tracing there is some cookie variables, which curl dosnt see, for example:

wdk_sess_cookie_0,lockFresh,d6_wdk_pref0,allFreshClient,__dmfClientId.

Does anybody know the way how to grab thats cookie-variables from response HTML file? Or may be some one could advise me workaround or another tool not a curl.

Thank you!

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jnichols1971

I've only automated logging in to WebTop with QuickTest Professional. I know that definitely works, but it's pricey.

Possible free alternatives:

Selenium (Firefox plug-in) works really well with most websites (I've logged into gmail, amazon, and other sites with it). Compatible with multiple scripting languages, so there's less of a learning curve.

Grinder (java web performance test tool) I've used it to automate a number of webpages. It's not that hard to use. The scripts are all in python, but they're a little picky as to how the script is structured. In the past I've created a number of grinder python scripts, then used a parent TCL/perl script to modify them as necessary and run them in sequence from solaris.

The advantages with the above applications over Curl, is that they capture a lot more information as they are designed to record web processes and play them back as accurately as possible.

Hope that helps,

Jamie

NBB

Hi, Jamie. Thank you for your advise, but my task is not automated testing. I need to monitor perfomance of my system, the idea is to record some user's bechavior, then reply it every 3-5minutes and trace the response time, ideally it must be a scenario(not GUI tool) which would call from Nagios (Groudwork monitor), then using thoose values i can build a graphs, i would know when my system perfomance (from user's viewpoint) degrades and etc.

Does anybode has the similar experiense? I will be glad if you can help me. Thank you.

jnichols1971

Grinder and Selenium are used for automated testing, but also for running GUI-based activities on a programmatic basis. Grinder can be ran without a GUI, completely from a command line like Curl can. You can have a shell script (or any other script/program) set off a list of activities without a browser. And in the case of any applications I've mentioned, the response time can also be monitored because you know at what point in the script the POST started, and when all bytes from the response are received.

And Grinder is a fairly robust (for a free app) performance testing tool in the first place, and thus also supports simultaneous multithreaded requests and such.

It sounds like Grinder does exactly what you want, but you may be fixated on semantics. Good luck to you.

NBB

Hi, Jamie. Thank you for advise. I think this tool can be helpful for me. Also i can add one more tool which can be used for that task - webinject. I would use either for my task.
Thank you for help.