jmeter load testing 403 forbidden

Question

I am running a load test against our application (250 threads with 10 loops) and it never succeeds. error rate dominates with > 95% every run and have no clue what is going wrong. error is 403 forbidden across both GET and POST requests I have cookie manager with Hc4Cookiehandler implementation and policy is set to standard also got cache manager added in my test plan.

I have tweaked the JMeter settings as suggested in other forums, still no luck.

httpclient4.retrycount=1

http.connection.stalecheckBoolean=true

https.default.protocol=TLSv1.2

the interesting part is that certain requests are passing through fine and result 200 success. wondering if something is wrong with the jmeter configuration which is letting major requests to fail.

sample result:

summary =  24000 in 00:00:34 =  702.9/s Avg:   122 Min:     5 Max:  5347 Err: 23795 (99.15%)

403:

1556876389725,12,GET-/visitor/captureJobSearch.do,403,Forbidden,DT-ChildCare 1-45,text,false,Test failed: message expected to contain /OK/,519,945,100,100,11,0,4

200:

1556876387936,1564,GET-/visitor/captureSearchBar.do,200,OK,DT-ChildCare 1-1,text,true,,21616,473,100,100,1561,0,768

Seems like you're missing on CSRF tokens, try implementing the same on HTTP Header Manager and HTTP Cookie Manager — Yugal
yes, i have added referrer and origin to be same as our domain which should take care of handling csrf check. still no luck. — Vijay

Arjun Dev Arjun Dev · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-06T11:14:13

403 forbidden is mainly arise due to authentication failure . Try passing the authentication values(all values including JWT token or cookie details) hard corded in cookie manager. And keep the cookie manager in under thread group or just above the requests with Http Header manager.

jmeter load testing 403 forbidden

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