JMETER This site does not specify a policy in the P3P header ERROR

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I am trying to hit this URL https://subdomain.example.com in JMeter and recorded using the Blazemeter Chrome extension has all the necessary config elements but get an error:

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 1031 Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 01:21:35 GMT Expires: 0 p3p: CP="This site does not specify a policy in the P3P header"

I have tried coping the Header Cookies from Browser Header Response which works for sometime but then start throwing an error

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2 Answers

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As per HTTP Status Code 429 Too Many Requests description:

The HTTP 429 Too Many Requests response status code indicates the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").

A Retry-After header might be included to this response indicating how long to wait before making a new request.

So there are following options:

  1. Your server is overloaded, in this case there is nothing you can do here apart from reporting the error as the bottleneck
  2. Your script doesn't have proper correlation implemented, i.e. you're sending recorded hard-coded values instead of getting dynamic parameters
  3. Your server doesn't allow such amount of requests from a single IP address within the given timeframe, you could try implementing IP Spoofing so your server would "think" that the requests are coming from the different machines.
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Thanks for your reply. In the end I figured out that no limitation for number of calls implemented. Now come to answer this is how I managed to work this:

  1. Opened the page in chrome and from the header section copied all the header elements into the header manager hard coded. First time it fails and returns p3p: CP="This site does not specify a policy in the P3P header" but also return the update variable value needed for next request which I extract and used in the next and subsequent Requests. The way I was able to find out which variable is changing by using the string comparison of 2 Response Headers

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This was a difficult one but somehow worked with very minor change I also added the Header Manager to each request for safer side.