Configure Your Browser

1. In order for JMeter to record the navigation session, we must configure our browser to use the proxy server that JMeter launched.
2. For example, with Firefox, choose the menu Edit > Preferences:
   

   Figure 1.8: Proxy selection in Firefox

3. Then select the Advanced tab and then the Network sub-tab. Let's click on Settings…:
   

   Figure 1.9: Proxy selection in Firefox – Network

4. In the new window, select the Manual proxy configuration option, then fill in the HTTP Proxy field with the following IP address: 127.0.0.1 (corresponding to the local IP address (localhost)), and fill in the Port field with 8888 (corresponding to the default listening port of the JMeter proxy server).

   Caution

   When recording a local application, be careful to delete localhost and 127.0.0.1 from the No Proxy for: field.

5. Finally, check the Use this proxy server for all protocols box.
6. Let's save the modifications by clicking on the OK button in the Firefox window:

Figure 1.10: Proxy selection in Firefox – configuration