DO NOT REPLY [Bug 22512] New: - Https connections should be reused among samplers of the same thread

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Https connections should be reused among samplers of the same thread

           Summary: Https connections should be reused among samplers of the
                    same thread
           Product: JMeter
           Version: 1.9.RC3
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT/2K
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: HTTP
        AssignedTo: jmeter-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: lmedioni@sqli.com


JMeter seems to generate a SSL connection (at least using the same session ?) 
for each request sent (Http sampler, followed redirect, embedded image-css-...).
This makes response time measurements quite useless as the cost of the SSL 
reconnection is sometimes a lot more than the effective cost of the response 
handling (and the workload on the SSL negociating server is not realistic).

Could it be possible to put a flag somewhere (at the Thread group level or 
Simple controller ?) saying that all subsequent requests have to share and 
reuse the same connection, opened by the first request and closed by the last 
one ? And this occuring per thread of course :)