Key takeaways
- Header presets stop you re-entering auth and content-type headers on every test.
- Keep a preset per environment so a test cannot accidentally target the wrong one.
- Update the preset rather than individual tests when an API changes.
We’ve implemented the Header Presets functionality in order to save time and reused same set of headers for future load tests.
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The steps on how to use the Header Presets are described below:
- Under the URL section click on the Headers button
- Click “Manage Presets” button and Popup appears with the list of current presets (empty at the beginning)
- Click “Add” button to add new presets
- New Presets popup appears
- Select a name for the current set of headers presets
- Start adding key/value pairs for the current preset
- Click “Submit” when finished adding all the key/value pairs
- The new preset will be visible in the Manage Presets popup
- If you want to edit the current preset, just click on the preset name and edit the preset (names and values)
- Close the “Manage Presets” popup and the presets dropdown will be populated with all created presets
- Now just select the desired preset and the Headers will get populated with the values from the preset
- You can click on any preset in the dropdown, the values will append to the existing ones
Use the headers for load testing websites or APIs with custom headers.
Hope this helps is making LoadFocus a better and easier load testing service and your choice for the load testing tool to use.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What problem do header presets solve?
Re-entering the same authorisation and content-type headers on every new test. Saving them once removes a step that is easy to get subtly wrong when typed repeatedly.
Should I keep one preset or several?
One per environment. A single shared preset is how a test ends up pointed at the wrong environment with credentials that happen to work there.
What happens when the API changes?
Update the preset rather than each test. That is the point of having it: one edit propagates instead of leaving a few old tests quietly sending stale headers.
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