Editing Page Requests

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Editing Page Requests

All requests of user profile are displayed in Navigation Pane - in Initial, Main or Final folders (test sequences).

The properties specified for current profile will be used for all its requests. However, you can change some of these properties for individual requests. Click on any request in Navigation Pane and its properties will be displayed in the right pane on the Properties tab.

Name: Here you can change page name. For example, instead of default names page_1, page_2, you can type names with the certain meaning (for example, "Login", "Catalog", "Forum" etc).

Server: Here you can modify server name and port number.

Secure: Mark this checkbox if you wish to test pages that require SSL connection. URL address of such pages will start with https://.

URI: You can use either recorded URI, or get it dynamically at run-time. To get URI dynamically, you should use variables. First, you will need to define variables, and then click the Use Variable... button and in the displayed dialog, select desired variable.

Method: Select GET or POST request method.
When GET method is used, parameters are transmitted in page request string.
When POST method is used, parameters are transmitted implicitly (they are not specified in page request string).

Encoding: Here you can select another encoding that will be used during test runs for request parameters containing text strings.

You will need this option for testing multilingual web sites. When WAPT records a page, it uses the encoding specified in Internet Explorer options. During test runs, WAPT uses the encoding selected in Encoding combo-box. Default encoding here corresponds to the default locale in your Regional Options (Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Regional Options). However, you can select any other encoding for your requests, and it will be used during test runs.

User think time: This option is enabled only in case you have chosen the option As in request for user think time in properties of current profile. In other cases (Disable or Random from range options of user profile), you won't be able to modify delays for individual requests.
Specify 2 values: minimum and maximum values of delay. Then the delay for current page request will be taken from the specified range at random. You can set some constant delay: for this, specify equal limits of range.

Parameters: WAPT provides you with a number of functions for dynamic calculation of request parameter values at run-time. The resulted value can be also calculated as the concatenation of results of some functions. See Advanced Tasks for detailed description of functions and functions editor.

Add..: Opens the Edit Parameter dialog where you can define a new parameter and a function for its calculation.
Remove: Removes selected parameter from the list.
Edit..: Opens the Edit Parameter dialog where you can modify properties of selected parameter: name and function for its calculation.

Variables: You can use variables to calculate parameters and URIs. To define a variable, you can use functions that parse actual HTML code of response at run-time.

Add..: Opens the Edit Variable dialog where you can define a new variable and a function for its calculation. Note that created variable will be available only in subsequent requests.
Remove: Removes selected variable from the list.
Edit..: Opens the Edit Variable dialog where you can modify properties of selected variable: name and function for its calculation.

Load images: This option is enabled only in case the corresponding checkbox Load images is enabled in profile properties. If this option is disabled in profile properties, then all pages of current user profile will be loaded without images.
Load images checkbox is identical to Show pictures checkbox in advanced Internet Explorer options. If you clear this checkbox, then the current page will be loaded without images.
You can see the list of image URL addresses. If the Load images option is enabled for current page, then all images that are checked in the list will be requested during test run. Click on image checkbox to check/uncheck it. You can edit URL addresses of images: click on desired address in the list, modify it and press Enter.

Add..: Adds a new string to the end of the list. Specify URL of desired image and press Enter.
Remove: Removes selected image URL from the list.
Select All: Selects all image URLs in the list.
Select None: None of image URLs will be selected.

HTTP Headers..: Enables to edit custom strings in HTTP header of current page request.
By default, HTTP headers specified for the whole user profile will be used for all its requests. However, you can change HTTP header for individual requests.