Differences in .HAR files generated by selenium web driver with BrowserMob and webpag

[raghu.snist]

@All:

I have posted the same question in other forums. Below are the links. You can find some more information here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10923...ifferences

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgro...wkOW0toNu4

(06-08-2012 07:38 AM)raghu.snist Wrote:  Hello Meenan,

Thanks for the reply.

The following are the answers to your questions

1) I have to find out whether BMP proxies the requests. I am very new to this field.

2) I have flash installed on my Firefox test Agent.

3) yes the content changes depending on location and time.

4) I haven't used any Firefox settings in the code for BMP. I have Firefox 12 installed on my machine. In WPT, I have selected just Firefox I dont know what version it is.

Thanks,
Raghu.

(06-08-2012 03:25 AM)pmeenan Wrote:  For the times I would fully expect WPT to be slower because we inject the traffic shaping to make it look like a DSL connection.

I'm not sure how the BrowserMob Proxy works but if the browser knows it is going through a proxy then it will radically change it's connection behavior so things will look quite a bit different. Do you know if the BM Proxy passes all of the headers through or if it really proxies the requests? Just wondering if it honors the gzip encoding, etc.

Do you have Flash installed on your Firefox test agent?

Is all of the content guaranteed to be identical or are there ads or other content that could vary depending on location or time?

Are you using the same version of Firefox in both cases?

You'll probably want to look at each individual resource to see if the content is the same and things are just counted slightly differently or if the content itself is different.

Thanks,

-Pat