[Tsung] Recording session using proxy's problem

[Nicolas Niclausse]

Dmitry Mikheev ecrivait le 20.06.2007 12:58:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm experiencing problems with tsung recorder, i can't browse through
> it's proxy.
> My goal is to test proxy performance, so i use      <option
> type="ts_http" name="http_use_server_as_proxy" value="true"></option>

the XML file is not used by the recorder

> loadgen (tsung), internal cache (squid) and external proxy to internet,
> and i'm trying to generate a network load on internal cache using tsung.
> I use firefox on loadgen to record a sessions for tsung.
> 
> If i connect using internal cache, i can see external internet resources
> trough external proxy.
> If i connect using tsung recorder, i can't see anything, i can't see any
> traffic to external proxy with tcpdump from recorder.
> 
> The problem is, recorder tryes to resolve addresses itself, instead of
> putting this task on internal cache, am i right?
> Is there a way to setup recoder to use parent proxy completely? Is there
> a workaround?

No, you can't use a parent proxy with the recorder. However, it should not
be very hard to add this feature. I'll try to add this ...

-- 
Nicolas