How to test web service with authentication using JMeter

Question

I'm using Apache JMeter 2.11 to test a web service with authentication. For the sample request I'm using View Results Tree as a listener and a SOAP/XML-RPC Request with the following syntax to my parameters:

• URL: http://www.domain.com:####/dir/dir/webservice.asmx
• SOAPAction: http://www.domain.com/action

What I have tried

1) Adding an HTTP Header Manager using

• Name: Authorization:
• Value: Basic [Base64 code encoded in ASCII, UTF-8, with or without domain in the user name] as explained here

With result: Response headers: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

2) Adding an HTTP Authorization Manager using

• Base URL: http://www.domain.com:####
• Username: [USERNAME]
• Password: [PASSWORD]
• Domain: [DOMAIN]
• Realm: [NULL]
• Mechanism: [BASIC_DIGEST/KERBEROS] as explained here

With result: Response headers: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

I also tried enabling Keep Alive in the request as suggested here

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

First you need to know the auth type, is it basic ? Digest ? Kerberos or other ?

Second, don't use SOAP/XML-RPC Request, use Http Request,

See Templates > Webservice in jmeter menu, it creates a sample test plan for Soap testing.

Add then your authentication with the correct Auth Manager using HttpClient 4 as sampler implementation and check.