Wiki Page: What will occur if you enable "Content-Encoding" when no...
If you enable the "Content-Encoding" check box under SETTINGS | ACTIVE PROFILE | WEB | BROWSER, Silk Performer will send an "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" http header and check if the server...
View ArticleWiki Page: I have parsed an entire page and written it to the output (.wrt)...
Since SilkPerformer 5.1 an enhancement was made to output files to enable them to display rendered HTML pages. This enables the user to see exactly what the parsed page would be displayed as in a...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why do my Write and Writeln statements not produce any output in...
This is most likely a formatting issue. SilkPerformer 5.0 introduced a feature that helps the display of HTML content in the Virtual User Output file. In order to display non-HTML text correctly you...
View ArticleWiki Page: Are there any known problems with using WebHeaderAdd for sending...
The WebHeaderAdd function cannot be used for sending the Content-Encoding header. The replay engine does not decode the encoded responses and as a result the script may fail as context will be lost....
View ArticleWiki Page: When I import an IDL file and start the recorder I receive the...
You have to rename the #ifndef pragmas. There is nothing wrong with the Silk Performer precompiler, and the error it is reporting is totally correct. The problem is that the IDL file is using a...
View ArticleWiki Page: What is the difference between the Page Component size and the...
The difference in these two measures is whether the number of bytes in the Response Header returned form the server is included in the calculation. When viewing Page statistics under the Statistics...
View ArticleBlog Post: Coding Corner: Json BDL API Sample and JsonPath Alternative
Introduction A short while ago, a couple of Silk Performer users posted the following question in the forum: How do I use Json effectively in a BDL script? They were looking for ... a comprehensive...
View ArticleWiki Page: Using ProcDump to generate a crash dump file (video)
(Please visit the site to view this video) ProcDump download link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900 Using ProcDump usage: procdump [-64] [[-c|-cl CPU usage] [-u] [-s...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I confirm that I am a member of the Windows Administrators...
There are two ways to easily identify if a user is part of the Administrators group: Through the Control Panel Open the Control Panel Select ‘User Accounts’ Select ‘Manage User Accounts’ This will...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Silk Performer and JSON parser
fyi: Coding Corner: Json BDL API Sample and JsonPath Alternative
View ArticleForum Post: Loop when reaching last row of data
I'm using SilkPerformer 10 I would like to know if I set a script to have TMain run 100 times (variables are being used) and I only have 50 rows of data, will it loop back to row one once it get to...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Loop when reaching last row of data
If you're using FileGetNextRow function, the document says, "If the current rows is the last row in a file, then the current row is set to the first row of the file." This indicates that it will read...
View ArticleWiki Page: Types of Time-Series Data Files
Time Series Data (TSD) files contain the results from a test and are stored in the Load Test Results folder. Merged Files Merged files begin with m@ ... and contain the time-series data from all...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why do I get Error "ComUserInit ITF: 273 - ClassFactory cannot...
This error message occurs due a naming conflict in the registry. To resolve this error use one of the following workarounds: Delete the SilkPerformerVB.dll in the SilkPerformer root; then create a new...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I insert hex values into an ascii string?
Firstly, reference the Silk Performer Help file which can be accessed by going to FILE | CONTENTS from within the Silk Performer Workbench. The section of interest is 'Escape sequences in string...
View ArticleWiki Page: What JDK versions are supported by Silk Perfomer?
As of Silk Performer 15.0 the supported JDK versions are 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7. For any other Silk Performer version please reference the release notes for that version to confirm the supported JDK's....
View ArticleWiki Page: Why, during a COM recording, does the recorder not record...
This may happen even though you have selected the interface in the application profile. The most likely reason for this is that the type library does not define the output/return parameter as an...
View ArticleWiki Page: Is there any way to convert a hexadecimal string into a regular...
There are no BDL functions for converting from Hexadecimal to Binary format. This can be done in a script as follows: const DATA := "\h000000006162636400"; dcltrans transaction TWeb var nLen: number;...
View ArticleWiki Page: TrueLog on Error - A Visual Click Path to Your Failures
This paper introduces the TrueLog on Error feature of Silk Performer V and discusses the different settings and its performance and scalability impact. The white paper is installed with Silk Performer...
View ArticleWiki Page: In Performance Explorer is there a way of changing the name of the...
In order to change the name of the monitoring graph you need to click on the graph that you want to edit. Now from the toolbar in Performance Explorer choose SETTINGS | VIEW | PROPERTIES. You can...
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