Troubleshooting
Problem
Attempts to playback an IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT) test result in HTTP 401"Unexpected challenge".
Symptom
You see the following message.
GET
/javax.faces.resource/event-custom/event-custom-min.js.jsf?ln=yui/3_1_1 HTTP/1.1
Unexpected challenge(HTTP status code=401) received during HTTP playback to web-server 'myhost.com' retrieving URI '/javax.faces.resource/event-custom/event-custom-min.js.jsf?ln=yui/3_1_1'. This behavior differs from the behavior recorded during test creation. For authentication to playback correctly a challenge must be recorded during test creation.
Cause
The error tells that the server received either no authorization credentials or the wrong credentials.
Resolving The Problem
Add the following custom code before the request that is failing. You need the class only at one point in the first page of test. That is, just before the 401 error.
Disclaimer
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package test;
import com.ibm.rational.test.lt.kernel.services.ITestExecutionServices;
import com.ibm.rational.test.lt.execution.http.cookie.IHTTPVirtualUserInfo;
import com.ibm.rational.test.lt.execution.http.cookie.ICookie;
import com.ibm.rational.test.lt.kernel.IDataArea;
import java.text.ParseException;
/**
* The ModifyCookie class sets the Path to / for a Cookie name passed in as the only argument.
*/
/**
* @author IBM Level 3 Support
*/
public class ModifyCookie implements
com.ibm.rational.test.lt.kernel.custom.ICustomCode2 {
public ModifyCookie() {
}
public String exec(ITestExecutionServices tes, String[] args) {
String cookieName = "OBBasicAuth";
String newCookie;
IDataArea dataArea = tes.findDataArea(IDataArea.VIRTUALUSER);
IHTTPVirtualUserInfo httpInfo = (IHTTPVirtualUserInfo)dataArea.get(IHTTPVirtualUserInfo.KEY);
ICookie serverSuppliedCookie[] = httpInfo.getCookieCache().getCookieByName(cookieName);
if (serverSuppliedCookie.length != 1)
{
if (serverSuppliedCookie.length == 0)
tes.getTestLogManager().reportMessage("Cannot find existing Cookie named " + cookieName);
else
tes.getTestLogManager().reportMessage("Found more than 1 cookie named " + cookieName);
return "Problem";
}
newCookie = cookieName + "=" + "fromDialog" + ";Path=/;Domain=" + serverSuppliedCookie[0].getDomain();
try {
httpInfo.getCookieCache().setCookie(newCookie);
} catch (ParseException e) {
tes.getTestLogManager().reportMessage("ERROR: Can't parse Cookie string: " + newCookie);
}
return "Success";
}
}
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 June 2018
UID
swg21585440