Reading a TOKEN from a page and reusing it on subsequent requests

The following script shows how to read some data from the HTML of a page and the use this data in subsequent requests:

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' Webserver Stress Tool V7 *** Sample Script for Reusing a Token

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' Requires Webserver Stress Tool 7.0.2 or later

 

Sub OnBeforeClick

 

   if data.clickcount=0 then data.url="http://walldorf.paessler.com" end if

   if data.clickcount=1 then data.url="http://walldorf.paessler.com/?test="+data.token end if

   data.log="Preparing click #"+inttostr(data.clickcount+1)+" of user #"+inttostr(data.usernumber+1)

 

end Sub

 

Sub OnAfterClick

  data.log=""

end sub

 

Sub OnbeforeRequest

  data.log=""

end sub

 

 

Sub OnAfterRequest

 

  if data.clickcount=0 then 'we only look in the HTML of the first click for our tags

    if data.requestcount=0 then 'we only look in the HTML of the first request of the first click for our tags

 

      tagbefore="<title>"

      tagafter="</title>"   'our tag/token delimiters

 

      if pos(tagbefore,request.html)>0 then

        if pos(tagafter,request.html)>0 then

          tagbegin=pos(tagbefore,request.html)+length(tagbefore)

          taglength=pos(tagafter,request.html)-tagbegin

          mytag=copy(request.html,tagbegin,taglength)

          data.log="FOUND TOKEN: '"+mytag+"'"

          data.token=mytag

        else

          data.log="Closing Token not found ("+tagafter+") in request number "+inttostr(data.requestcount)+" with resultcode "+inttostr(request.resultcode)+" ("+request.result+")"

        end if             

      else

        data.log="Opening Token not found ("+tagbefore+") in request number "+inttostr(data.requestcount)+" with resultcode "+inttostr(request.resultcode)+" ("+request.result+")"

      end if

 

    end if

  end if

 

end sub