Server response: "browser does not support JavaScript"

[Shay Ginsbourg <sg...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

While running a Jmeter script, we receive a response from the server
that the "browser does not support JavaScript".

At this point, our test fails because the script can't continue.

What is the recommended way of working around such an undesired server
response ?

Please advise.

regards,
Shay


www.ginsbourg.com

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Re: Server response: "browser does not support JavaScript"

[Shmuel Krakower <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

If you can control the behavior of the application, let it run instead of
showing this message.

If you cannot change the application, go around this.
Usually it doesn't mean anything as if you look in the response body (in
View Results Tree listener), you should find the rest of the page.
It is usually just the visible part of the page which renders into that
error message, you can continue with the rest of the script without any
problem.

Third option is that the server filter the user agent header for a list of
known browsers and responds accordingly.
If this is your case, and the response body really contains only this error
message - just add a user agent header to your sampler.

Best,

Shmuel Krakower.
Beatsoo.org - re-use your jmeter scripts for application performance
monitoring from worldwide locations for free.



On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Shay Ginsbourg <sg...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While running a Jmeter script, we receive a response from the server
> that the "browser does not support JavaScript".
>
> At this point, our test fails because the script can't continue.
>
> What is the recommended way of working around such an undesired server
> response ?
>
> Please advise.
>
> regards,
> Shay
>
>
> www.ginsbourg.com
>
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RE: Server response: "browser does not support JavaScript"

["HUSSEY, SCOTT T" <sh...@att.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shay Ginsbourg [mailto:sginsbourg@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 8:23 AM
> To: JMeter Users List
> Subject: Server response: "browser does not support JavaScript"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While running a Jmeter script, we receive a response from the server
> that the "browser does not support JavaScript".

Sounds like this may be due to User-Agent parsing, but without knowing how the server came to this conclusion it is hard to know how to approach it.
 
> At this point, our test fails because the script can't continue.
> 
> What is the recommended way of working around such an undesired server
> response ?

Assuming the User-Agent is the issue, use a HTTP Header Manager to add a custom User-Agent to all requests.

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Re: Server response: "browser does not support JavaScript"

[Shay Ginsbourg <sg...@gmail.com>]

Thank you guys for your good suggestions.





On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Adrian Speteanu <as...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> see bellow...
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Shay Ginsbourg <sginsbourg@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > While running a Jmeter script, we receive a response from the server
> > that the "browser does not support JavaScript".
> >
> > At this point, our test fails because the script can't continue.
> >
> > What is the recommended way of working around such an undesired server
> > response ?
> >
>
> Well, black-boxed - I would assume that someone expects something from a
> script that isn't running to make this assumption. So, I would review the
> test and the web-page in firebug and see what was added since the script
> was first created. Also, I wouldn't assume from start that this requires
> javascript in jmeter, since is probably something that comes in
> body/headers as false (or is inexistent) and is returned as it equals true
> in headers/body, anything extremely simplistic.
>
> Btw, some sites had this in the basic HTML -> if you were missing flash
> player or blocked javascript with addons / browser settings - they had a
> default text or picture saying you need to enable whatever was needed for
> their site. If the site was slow enough you could see those - even if it
> did eventually load ok. In jmeter, of course, you only got that in the
> HTML. Just something I wanted to throw in there, not sure if it is the
> case.
>
>
> >
> > Please advise.
> >
> > regards,
> > Shay
> >
> >
> > www.ginsbourg.com
> >
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Re: Server response: "browser does not support JavaScript"

[Adrian Speteanu <as...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

see bellow...

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Shay Ginsbourg <sg...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While running a Jmeter script, we receive a response from the server
> that the "browser does not support JavaScript".
>
> At this point, our test fails because the script can't continue.
>
> What is the recommended way of working around such an undesired server
> response ?
>

Well, black-boxed - I would assume that someone expects something from a
script that isn't running to make this assumption. So, I would review the
test and the web-page in firebug and see what was added since the script
was first created. Also, I wouldn't assume from start that this requires
javascript in jmeter, since is probably something that comes in
body/headers as false (or is inexistent) and is returned as it equals true
in headers/body, anything extremely simplistic.

Btw, some sites had this in the basic HTML -> if you were missing flash
player or blocked javascript with addons / browser settings - they had a
default text or picture saying you need to enable whatever was needed for
their site. If the site was slow enough you could see those - even if it
did eventually load ok. In jmeter, of course, you only got that in the
HTML. Just something I wanted to throw in there, not sure if it is the case.


>
> Please advise.
>
> regards,
> Shay
>
>
> www.ginsbourg.com
>
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