Setting up Jmeter to do HTTPS

Question

I am using a jmeter 2.7 for my load testing. When we started of the urls to use were simple http. Now we have moved to HTTPS. Can some one tell me how to enable ssl in jmete

Answer 1

I couldn't get this to work.

curl -X GET "https://x.com/PROMOT" -k -H "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46cGFzcw=="

Would work.

However JMeter 2.13 with https and HttpClient3.1/HttpClient4/Java would error on

javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: protocol_version

My site used https only.

I did a wireshark and the https curl seems to utilize TLSV1 JMeter seemed to do SSLv3 which did not work. Added this property as it works now.

Added in jmeter.propeties and things work now!

https.default.protocol=TLSv1

Or an argument with jmeter.

 --jmeterproperty https.default.protocol=TLSv1

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A side note: https.default.protocol=TLS exists commented in jmeter.properties, But uncommenting that still defaulted to SSLv3. Had to explicitly change it to TLSv1.