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HTTP Transaction vs HTTP Full Web Page

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This might be a bit of a foolish question, however after reading the documentation of the "http transaction" sensor, I was led to believe that setting the sensor to "get" requests the webpage directly, just as you and I would browse to it. What I find puzziling is that this sensor has completley different data to the "full web page" sensor set to the same website

Http transaction on "get" will give around 4 seconds Http "full web page" will give around 10 seconds

What is different about the sensors?

http-full-web-page http-sensor http-transaction-sensor

Created on Jan 8, 2013 7:23:53 PM



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Only the Full Page sensor actually loads all the embedded objects (images, scripts, JAVA applets, etc.) - all other HTTP sensors only load the HTML source code directly from the document under the specified URL. Beyond that, all other HTTP sensors do not execute active elements (e.g. Javascript) in the HTML code. This can also make a difference if, for example, code is loaded after the initial connection.

Created on Jan 9, 2013 1:58:27 PM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3



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Thanks, that is exactly what I was after :)

Created on Jan 10, 2013 8:42:24 PM




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